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    Summary of Maria Rosa Menocal's The Ornament of the World
    Summary of Maria Rosa Menocal's The Ornament of the World
    Summary of Maria Rosa Menocal's The Ornament of the World
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    #1 Abd al-Rahman, a young man from the heart of the Islamic Empire, fled to the Maghrib, where he met with his Berber kinsmen. They had converted to Islam and were partially Arabized, and they had pushed across the Strait of Gibraltar to conquer Iberia.

    #2 The local politics in al-Andalus were shaped by the often violent rivalries between the majority Berber rank and file and the Arab leadership. The emirs of these Andalusian frontier territories were fairly autonomous representatives of the rather distant central government.

    #3 The history of al-Andalus, which is the history of Islam in Europe, is largely unknown and misunderstood. It was a period of time that was dark and barbaric in the conventional histories of the Arabic-speaking peoples, but it was a fascinating period of time that profoundly affected European history.

    #4 The book follows the path of Abd al-Rahman, who escaped the destruction of his home to become the first of his line. It is about a foundational European cultural moment that qualifies as first-rate in the sense of E Scott Fitzgerald’s formula: the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIRB Media
    Release dateJul 13, 2022
    ISBN9798822546547
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      #1

      Abd al-Rahman, a young man from the heart of the Islamic Empire, fled to the Maghrib, where he met with his Berber kinsmen. They had converted to Islam and were partially Arabized, and they had pushed across the Strait of Gibraltar to conquer Iberia.

      #2

      The local politics in al-Andalus were shaped by the often violent rivalries between the majority Berber rank and file and the Arab leadership. The emirs of these Andalusian frontier territories were fairly autonomous representatives of the rather distant central government.

      #3

      The history of al-Andalus, which is the history of Islam in Europe, is largely unknown and misunderstood. It was a period of time that was dark and barbaric in the conventional histories of the Arabic-speaking peoples, but it was a fascinating period of time that profoundly affected European history.

      #4

      The book follows the path of Abd al-Rahman, who escaped the destruction of his home to become the first of his line. It is about a foundational European cultural moment that qualifies as first-rate in the sense of E Scott Fitzgerald’s formula: the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time.

      #5

      The heart of culture lay in al-Andalus, which required us to redraw the map of Europe and place the Mediterranean at the center. It was there that the profoundly Arabized Jews reinvented Hebrew, and where Christians embraced nearly every aspect of Arabic style, from the intellectual style of philosophy to the architectural styles of mosques.

      Insights from Chapter 2

      #1

      The stories in this chapter highlight the vast difference between what the conventional histories would have us believe about the Middle Ages and what we can learn from the many testimonies that survive in the songs people really sang.

      Insights from Chapter 3

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      The death of Muhammad, the Prophet who brought Islam, the religion of submission to God, in 632 was the beginning of major

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