Title: Golden age of the Moor /
Authors: Van Sertima, Ivan.
Date: 1992
Publisher: Transaction Publishers,
Physical description: 462 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC class: C
Abstract: This book examines the debt owed by Europe to the Moors for its Renaissance, and the significant role, played by the Africans in the Muslim invasions of the Iberian peninsula. While the authors focus mainly on Spain and Portugal, they also examine the races and roots of the original North Africans before the later ethnic mix of the blackamoors and tawny Moors in the medieval period. The study ranges from characterizations of the Moors in the literature of Cervantes and Shakespeare to their profound influence upon the development of Europe's university system, and the diffusion through this system of ancient and medieval sciences.
Contents: The Moor in Africa and Europe: origins and definitions / Ivan Van Sertima -- The Moor in Europe: influences and contributions / Ivan Van Sertima -- The Moors in antiquity / James E. Brunson and Runoko Rashidi -- The empire of the Moors / John G. Jackson -- The African heritage & ethnohistory of the Moors: background to the emergence of early Berber and Arab peoples, from prehistory to the Islamic dynasties / Dana Reynolds -- The Moor: light of Europe's Dark Age / Wayne Chandler -- Moorish Spain: academic source and foundation for the rise and success of Western European universities in the Middle Ages / Jose V. Pimienta-Bey. Moorish culture-bringers: bearers of enlightenment / Jan Carew -- The music of the Moors in Spain (Al-Andalus, 711-1492 A.D.) origin of Andalusian musical art: its development and influence on Western culture / Yusef Ali -- The Moors and Portugal's global expansion / Edward Scobie -- Africans in the birth and expansion of Islam / Mamadou Chinyelu -- Cairo: science academy of the Middle Ages / Beatrice Lumpkin and Siham Zitler -- The Egyptian precursor to Greek and "Arab" science / Ivan Van Sertima -- An annotated bibliography of the Moors: 711-1492 A.D. / James Ravell.