12-14-2006, 03:56 AM | #11 | |
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12-14-2006, 04:42 AM | #12 |
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The Moors are among the good guys. The term "Moors" generally refers to the Islamic people who conquered and occupied Spain for over 600 years in the Middle Ages. The Moors valued educatation and were tolerant of Jews and Christians, although they required a "heresy tax" of those that did not convert. Many historians credit them for helping to save Western Civilization because they copied and preserved mountains of writings from the ancient Greeks and Romans about everything from making glass and medicine to philosphy and epic poetry. During the Rennaisance these were discovered and re-translated into the European tongues that had emerged. Their mosques are to this day some of the most beautiful buildings in the history of the world.
The golden age of the Moors ended with Christianity's successful reconquest of Spain. Still the Moors' contribution to Spanish and larger Western culture was immense. With the Christian "reconquista" came a lot of bad stuff like the inquisition. Some historians from the Nineteenth Century used the Moors as a basis for arguing that Islam is a more nuanced and tolerant and intellecutual religion than Christianity. Nobody claims that anymore. It was more fashionable among intellectuals to attack Christianity then than even now. What the 19th century historians overlooked was that it was the Greek influence over Moorish culture that gave it many of these admirable traits. They came from lands, like Judea, once conquered and settled by Alexander, and during much of the time that the Moors controlled Spain Byzantium was a super power. Thus the Moors' achievements are in a sense another manifestation of the primacy of Greco-Roman culture which is the foundation for our own.
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Oh, was it the moops who El Cid fought? Pardon me.
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See, if you had a television you'd recognize the obvious Seinfeld allusion.
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You got me on that one. I'm clueless.
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