The Golden Age of the Moor (Journal of African Civilizations, Vol 11, Fall 1991) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1560005815 ISBN 13: 9781560005810

Publisher: Transaction Publishers, 1992

Synopsis

This work examines the debt owed by Europe to the Moors for the Renaissance and the significant role played by the African in the Muslim invasions of the Iberian peninsula. While it focuses mainly on Spain and Portugal, it also examines the races and roots of the original North African before the later ethnic mix of the blackamoors and tawny Moors in the medieval period. The study ranges from the Moor in the literature of Cervantes and Shakespeare to his profound influence upon Europe's university system and the diffusion via this system of the ancient and medieval sciences. The Moors are shown to affect not only European mathematics and map-making, agriculture and architecture, but their markets, their music and their machines. The ethnicity of the Moor is re-examined, as is his unique contribution, both as creator and conduit, to the first seminal phase of the industrial revolution.

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About the Author

Ivan Van Sertima (1935-2009) was professor of African studies at Rutgers University. He was visiting professor at Princeton University and lectured at more than one hundred colleges and universities. He edited the Journal of African Civiliations, which has greatly changed the way in which African history and culture are taught and studied.

Edition details

• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1560005815
• ISBN 13: 9781560005810
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 474
• Editor: Sertima Ivan Van