Moorish


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a style of architecture common in Spain from the 13th to 16th centuries

relating to or characteristic of the Moors

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It is also famous for being home to the Mezquita, the grandest and most beautiful mosque ever constructed in the Moorish world.
He had joined Noble Drew Ali's Moorish Science Temple in the late 1920s, and gradually made his way to the group's leadership when Drew died under obscure circumstances in 1929.
As described by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a legal-advocacy nonprofit organization, Moorish sovereigns espouse the idea that "African Americans constitute an elite class within American society with special rights and privileges that convey on them a sovereign immunity placing them beyond federal and state authority." The SPLC considers Moorish sovereigns to be a subset of the anti-government Sovereign Citizens movement, which by some estimates has 300,000 adherents nationwide.
Stay in the heart of the 'real' Andalucia Enjoy a full-day visit to Seville Journey towards the Sierra Nevada, beneath which the great Moorish city of Granada stands Visit Granada and enjoy a visit to the worldrenowned Alhambra and its exquisite gardens Visit the Andalucian city of Ronda Fully escorted by a friendly, experienced Five nights' three-star bed and breakfast hotel *Applies to bookings made by 3rd Oct 2018.
But their three-year marriage collapsed when he had an affair with singer Lisa Moorish, 46.
Instead, Moroccan musicians serenaded her birthday guests with traditional Berber music under the stars on the rooftop of the Moorish palace she hired in the ancient city of Marrakech.
Liverpool Underground, which campaigns for better transport links, wants to see the old Moorish Arch, which was located within the Cavendish railway cutting atEdge Hill,recreated.
It took 19 years for Liam Gallagher to meet his daughter, Molly Moorish, but it looks now she's firmly in the family fold as they all head off on holiday to Ibiza together.
LIAM Gallagher has met his daughter Molly Moorish for the first time in almost two decades.
Stay in the heart of the 'real' Andalucia Enjoy a full-day visit to Seville Journey towards the Sierra Nevada, beneath which the great Moorish city of Granada stands Visit Granada and enjoy a visit to the exquisite palace and gardens of the world-renowned Alhambra Visit the Andalucian city of Ronda Fully escorted by a friendly, experienced Five nights' three-star bed and breakfast hotel *Applies to bookings made by 30th Apr 2018.
The author reframes the issue of Moorish dress through an interdisciplinary reading of its social and commercial value as a vehicle for economic mobility, against the common tendency to read Moorish clothing exclusively as a marker of religious and ethnic identity.
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Using Gilberto Freyre's work as a case study, the authors highlight his tracing of both patriarchal authoritarianism and sexual-racial flexibility in relation to Brazil's Moorish lineage, as well as his recuperation of the Sephardi for the national formation of Brazil's economy, science, and culture.