The Moors' Influence in Spain and the Alhambra

City taken back from the Moors by Ferdinand & Isabella

Granada

Alhambra Design

Based on ratio of square to diagonals

Name of Islam's prophet

Mohammed

Original name of Iberian peninsula, of the Vandals/Visigoths

Al Andalus

Year the Moors arrived in Spain

711

Moorish King's Mother Uttered the famous last line at the Alhambra

Do not weep like a woman for which you cannot defend like a man

Served as places of worship

Mezquitas

Major Ruler in Córdoba, brought agriculture, knowledge, and irrigation

Abd al-Rahman

Moorish derived knowledge Source

the ancient Greeks

Moorish mercenary from Morocco

Guzmán el Bueno

Reconquista

Civil war between cultures

Moor/Arab Mathematical Contribution

Arabic Numerals

Moorish Technological Contribution

Chinese paper technology

Moorish Art

Geometry and Poetry

purpose of the inquisition

Eliminate non-Christians through auto de fe

record of Alhambra Residents

burned by a fire

Shift in Thinking

Renaissance overlapped with this period

Alhambra Meaning

'The red one', named for its stones

Renaissance Origin

Toledo

Islam changed from celebration to repression of knowledge

fundamentalist invasion