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Renaissance #192 – The Crusades (part 1)
Ten years after the death of Muhammad in 632, the political and religious map of the Mediterranean and the Near East had been completely rewritten. The great prize…
Renaissance #191 – El Cid (Reconquista #12)
The next major milestones of the Reconquista were the Granada massacre (1066) and the Fall of Toledo (1085). Both took part in a wider battle between the Christian…
Renaissance #190 – The Battle of Covadonga (Reconquista #11)
The high point of the Muslim conquest of Spain was The Caliphate of Córdoba, established in the late 10th century by Abd al-Rahman III, who declared himself Caliph…
Renaissance #189 – al-Khwari'zmi, the father of Algebra and the Algorithm (Reconquista #10)
One of the most important scholars that al-Mamun employed at the House of Wisdom was Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwari'zmi, the most famous Arabic mathematician and scientist. He was…