Skip to content
Header Image

islamicate

islam doesn't speak, muslims do | "the ink of the scholar is worth more than the blood of the martyr" – Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)

  • Home
  • 2008
  • April
  • 26
  • Cities of Light: Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain

Cities of Light: Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain

April 26, 2008 islamoyankee

The documentary is apparently over a year old, but the review and the interview are both worth reading. The comments on the interview are pretty interesting as well.

Inter-faithTagged al-Andalus, Spain

Post navigation

Only Other People Have “Culture”
A Meditation on Ali

Related Posts

Two Muslims, Playing Against Stereotype | The Jewish Week

Yes, Zeba is a friend.  Two Muslims, Playing Against Stereotype | The Jewish Week. Zeba Khan was born and raised in a middle-class home in Toledo, Ohio, and for nine years attended the local Jewish day school, The Hebrew Academy, going to morning minyan every day. She graduated in 1993.

Three Denver Muslims lead cheers for Tebow – Washington Times

Three Denver Muslims lead cheers for Tebow – Washington Times. This is the story of three sports-loving Muslim brothers and how they boosted the career of the NFL’s most famous Christian.

Yet more reasons not to like Bernard Lewis

Read from my referrer here. This man is an Ottomanist who has become the most vocal interpreter of modern, Arab Islam in the US right now. It boggles the mind that he is considered an expert on the topics for which he is consulted – topics that affect whether or not we go to war. Even his medieval Arab history has been attacked as being slip shod and polemical.

Persistence

  • Commemoration
  • Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism
  • Jews, Muslims, and Orthodoxy
  • My God Hates More than Your God
  • On Being a Conservative-Liberal Muslim
  • The Discussion I Want to Have
  • The New Mecca
  • What is Shi'ism?

Archives

Categories

Copyright © 2026 islamicate | Slick Blog by Ascendoor | Powered by WordPress.