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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.
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.
Title: Golden Age of the Moor
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Publication Date: 1992
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good
Book Type: Book
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback - clean, clean cover, no marks - from private collection -. Seller Inventory # 39034.240509
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Good. *Veteran-Owned, Family-Run, Small Business in the Pacific Northwest*. Seller Inventory # ABE-1695615385534
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Book Description Trade paperback. Trade paperback (US). 474 p. Journal of African Civilizations, 11. Audience: General/trade. Good. Wear to cover. Laminate is slightly raised along cover edge. Text unmarked. Seller Inventory # Alibris.0015520