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Spanish Islam

work by Dozy

Also known as: “Histoire des musulmans d’Espagne, jusqu’à la conquête de l’ Andalousie par les Almoravides, 711–1110”

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In Reinhart Pieter Dozy
…par les Almoravides, 711–1110 (1861; Spanish Islam, 1913). Dozy, of French Huguenot ancestry, spent 33 years as a professor of history at the University of Leiden. His history, a graphically written account of Moorish dominion in Spain that shed new light on many obscure points, long remained the standard work…
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