Edited sentence: However, Islamic rule in the Iberian Peninsula ended with the fall of Granada to the forces of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.Rather than face persecution and possible execution, many Muslims and Jews fled to Morocco.The Inquisitors, eager to abolish any trace of Islamic culture, destroyed the libraries in Muslim Spain, where thousands of texts were kept.Under Islamic rule, Spanish cities such as Sevilla and Granada as well as Fes and Marrakech in Morocco became places where the citizenry prospered under a tolerant rule which also focused on scholarly advances in science, mathematics, astronomy, geography as well as medicine.Under the Catholic Inquisition, troops pillaged Granada amongst other Islamic cities and persecuted its citizens, Muslims and Jewish