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A 7 page research paper that examines the rich heritage of medieval Moorish Spain and how it influenced Christian Europe. The writer discusses the outpouring of knowledge from Arabic sources that occurred when Christians conquered Toledo. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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their minds completely made up on this issue. This "official" view is that the effect of Islam on Christianity was "marginal," if not non-existent (Ghazanfar, 1998). Other scholars are slightly
more open-minded, and a few see Western tradition as intrinsically linked with medieval Arab-Islamic civilization (Ghazanfar, 1998). Rosa Menocal of Yale follows this small, but significant school of thinking towards
medieval Arab influences on Europe, which acknowledges the Wests cultural debt to Islam. She points out, "How can we still be so certain of our association that the basic
reading list for a budding medievalist should include Aquinas and Augustine but not Ibn Hazm or Avicenna" (Ghazanfar, 1998). As this suggests, in investigating the effect of Islam on the
Christian Church, one is combating a millennium of Western bias. Islam has been regarded as the "enemy," the "infidel," for such a long time, that Western Europe does not easily
acknowledge its debt to Arab-Islamic social forces. Therefore, for the most part, the influence on the Church proper, short of being able to trace medieval religious positions that draw on
Greek, Roman and Arabic sources, must be inferred from historical scholarship that charts the remarkable social contributions that derive from the period when Islamic Moors ruled Spain. The popular
conception of the medieval period is that the Catholic Church was a lone beacon of light, preserving ancient knowledge until such time as the outside world would welcome it once
again. What this idealized version of the Middle Ages usually overlooks is that a blossoming of knowledge. Art, music, science, commerce and architecture were all prevalent in Europe during this
same period. Long before the European Renaissance, Muslim Spain was a place of humanistic beauty and understanding, and it was knowledge from this culture that enlightened the rest of Europe,
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