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Wikipedia: Al-Andalus (Arabic: الأندلس, alÅndɑlʋs) was the Arabic name given to a nation in the parts of the Iberian Peninsula and Septimania governed by Muslims (given the generic name of Moors), at various times in the period between 711 and 1492. Following the conquest, al-Andalus was divided into five administrative areas roughly corresponding to Andalusia, Galicia and Portugal, Castile and Léon, Aragon and Catalonia, and Septimania. As a political domain or domains, it successively constituted a province of the Umayyad Caliphate, initiated by the Caliph Al-Walid I (711–750); the Emirate of Córdoba (c. 750–929); the Caliphate of Córdoba (929–1031); and the Caliphate of Córdoba's taifa (successor) kingdoms.
![[Averroes, founder of the Averroism school of philosophy, was influential in the rise of secular thought in Western...]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/AverroesColor_s.jpg "Averroes, founder of the Averroism school of philosophy, was influential in the rise of secular thought in Western...")
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![[Deep Dish, Spain After 1475 Tin]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Lustreware_s.jpg "Deep Dish, Spain After 1475 Tin")
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![[A manuscript page of the Qur'an in the script developed in al]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/AndalusQuran_s.jpg "A manuscript page of the Qur'an in the script developed in al")
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![[A later illustration, depicting the Jewish Soldiers fighting alongside the forces of Muhammed IX, Nasrid Sultan of...]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Higueruela_s.jpg "A later illustration, depicting the Jewish Soldiers fighting alongside the forces of Muhammed IX, Nasrid Sultan of...")
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![[Image of a Jewish cantor reading the Passover story in al]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Andalus_cantor_s.jpg "Image of a Jewish cantor reading the Passover story in al")
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![[Moorish Garden in Granada, al-Andalus]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/GRX_Generalife_7661_41_s.jpg "Moorish Garden in Granada, al-Andalus")
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