Historical Nonfiction: Muslims and Europe in the Middle Ages

Historical Nonfiction: Muslims and Europe in the Middle Ages:

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• The “Athens of the West”—the Moorish capital of Cordoba, in Andalusia, Spain’s southernmost region—had, in the year 900, a library of 400,000 books, miles of paved streets, and a population of perhaps half a million.


• Pope Sylvester II (999–1003) tried to introduce Arabic numerals into Christian…

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