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Title: History of the Moors of Spain
Author: M. Florian
Release Date: August 16, 2007 [EBook #22337]
Language: English
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HISTORY
OF THE
MOORS OF SPAIN
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH ORIGINAL OF
M. FLORIAN.
TO WHICH IS ADDED,
A BRIEF NOTICE OF ISLAMISM
NEW YORK
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
329 & 331 PEARL STREET,
FRANKLIN SQUARE
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[Transcriber's note: This book contains a number of variations in the spelling of some words/names, e.g. Haccham/Hacchem, Gengis/Zengis (Khan), etc.]
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1840 by
Harper & Brothers,
In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New York
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PUBLISHERS' ADVERTISEMENT.
We are accustomed to look upon the followers of the Arabian Prophet as little better than barbarians, remarkable chiefly for ignorance, cruelty, and a blind and persecuting spirit of fanaticism. As it regards the character of the Mohammedans at the present day, and, indeed, their moral and intellectual condition for the last two centuries, there is no great error in this opinion. But they are a degenerated race. There has been a period of great brilliancy in their history, when they were distinguished for their love of knowledge, and the successful cultivation of science and the arts; nor is it too much to say, that to them Christian Europe is indebted for the generous impulse which led to the revival of learning in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Of the various nations of the great Moslem family, none were more {vi} renowned in arts, as well as arms, than the Moorish conquerors of Spain, whose history is contained in the following pages. The French original of this work has long enjoyed a deservedly high reputation; and the translation here offered is by an American lady, whose literary taste and acquirements well qualified her for the task.
A sketch of Mohammedan history, &c., from Rev. S. Greene's Life of Mohammed, has been appended at the close of the volume, to present to the reader a comprehensive view of that very remarkable people, of whom the Moors of Spain formed so distinguished a branch.
H. & B.
New York, October, 1840.
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CONTENTS
FIRST EPOCH
PAGE
The Origin of the Moors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
The Arabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
The Birth of Mohammed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Religion of Mohammed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
The Progress of Islamism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Victories of the Mussulmans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
New Conquests of the Mohammedans . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
The Moors become Mussulmans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Condition of Spain under the Goths . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Conquest of Spain by the Moors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
The Viceroys of Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Insurrection of Prince Pelagius . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Abderamus attempts the Conquest of France . . . . . . . . 39
He penetrates as far as the Loire . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
The Battle of Tours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Civil Wars distract Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
SECOND EPOCH.
The Kings of Cordova become the Caliphs of the West . . . 45
The Asiatic Mussulmans divide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
The Dynasty of the Ommiades lose the Caliphate . . . . . . 48
Horrible Massacre of the Ommiades . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
An Ommiade Prince repairs to Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Abderamus, the first Caliph of the West . . . . . . . . . 53
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Reign of Abderamus I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Religion and Fêtes of the Moors of Spain . . . . . . . . . 55
Civil Wars arise among the Moors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
The Reigns of Hacchem I. and of Abdelazis . . . . . . . . 58
Reign of Abderamus II. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Condition of the Fine Arts at Cordova . . . . . . . . . . 60
Anecdote of Abderamus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Reigns of Mohammed, Almouzir, and Abdalla . . . . . . . . 62
Reign of Abderamus III. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Embassy from a Greek Emperor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Magnificence and Gallantry of the Moors . . . . . . . . . 64
Description of the City and Palace of Zahra . . . . . . . 65
Wealth of the Caliphs of Cordova . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
The Fine Arts cultivated at Cordova . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Reign of El Hacchem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Laws of the Moors, and their Mode of administering Justice 75
Authority possessed by Fathers and old Men . . . . . . . . 77
An Illustration of the Magnanimity of El Hakkam . . . . . 78
Reign of Hacchem III. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Successful Rule of Mohammed Almonzir as Hadjeb under
the imbecile Hacchem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Disorders at Cordova . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
End of the Caliphate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
THIRD EPOCH.
The principal Kingdoms erected from the Ruins of the
Caliphate of the West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Condition of Christian Spain at this Juncture . . . . . . 88
The Kingdom of Toledo; its Termination . . . . . . . . 87, 88
Success of the Christians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
The Cid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
The Kingdom of Seville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
The Dynasty of the Almoravides hold Supremacy in Africa . 92
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Conquests of the Almoravides in Spain . . . . . . . . . . 93
French Princes repair to Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Extinction