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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

{v}

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 en