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Anonymous
Posted July 25, 2009
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This is a really cool book and i love dr. van sertima writing it is beautiful
please read this book
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Posted April 14, 2013
Very good book on a subject that is not taught in American schools but should. The Moors contributed a lot to the arts, architecture and sciences in the area that is now southern Spain. They are a mixture of black North Africans, Berbers with Islam as their religion. They were not Arabs.
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Posted July 29, 2003
This book shows that the muslim world contributed much to the civilizing of Europe especially during the Dark Ages when Europe was very backward.It is a perfect read in a post 9-11 world where many prejudices are directed toward the muslim world. Also this book highlights a very unknown topic a topic that Shakespeare himself knew and that is that many of the Moors were Black Africans
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Overview
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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Meet 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 Civilizations, which has greatly changed the way in which African history and culture are taught and studied.