Region: Al-Andalus
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Urban Life: Markets, Baths, Neighborhoods, Infrastructure
A guide to urban life in al-Andalus and the Maghreb through markets, baths, neighborhoods, walls, water systems, roads, ports, and public infrastructure.
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Religious Minorities in Practice: Jews and Christians in Muslim Iberia
A careful guide to Jewish and Christian life under Muslim rule in Iberia, balancing legal status, daily practice, elite careers, conflict, protection, pressure, and evidence limits.
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Slavery in al-Andalus and the Maghreb: Systems and Sources
A careful guide to slavery in al-Andalus and the Maghreb as a set of changing legal, military, domestic, commercial, and frontier systems documented by uneven sources.
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Social Classes in al-Andalus: Elite, Artisans, Farmers, Slaves
A guide to social hierarchy in al-Andalus, including rulers, scholars, merchants, artisans, farmers, servants, enslaved people, religious minorities, and the source limits around ordinary lives.
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Medicine and Surgery in al-Andalus: al-Zahrawi and the Medical Tradition
A careful entry point into al-Zahrawi, surgical instruments, medical writing, and the way Andalusi medicine moved through Arabic and Latin learned traditions.
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Translation and Transmission: How Arabic Knowledge Entered Latin Europe
A practical guide to how Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin scholarly worlds interacted through translation, adaptation, commentary, and institutional reuse.
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Clothing, Textiles, and Fashion in Moorish Societies
A source-aware guide to clothing, textiles, and fashion as evidence for rank, gender, work, courtly display, trade, craft skill, and the limits of visual reconstruction.
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Food, Agriculture, and the Andalusian Garden Economy
A guide to food, crops, irrigation, gardens, markets, and elite landscapes in al-Andalus, with attention to evidence limits and later garden memory.
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The Ulama: Scholars, Judges, and Political Power
A guide to the ulama as scholars, jurists, judges, teachers, advisers, and sometimes critics who shaped law, learning, public authority, and political legitimacy.
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Astronomy and Timekeeping in al-Andalus
An orientation to astronomy, calendars, instruments, prayer times, navigation, and the practical uses of mathematical knowledge in al-Andalus.
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Averroes (Ibn Rushd) and the Philosophy Wars
A source-aware guide to Ibn Rushd's major philosophical debates, explaining the Decisive Treatise, the response to al-Ghazali, and why the story is more complex than a simple reason-versus-religion slogan.
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Libraries, Schools, and Book Culture in Cordoba and Beyond
A guide to books, libraries, court patronage, copying, and teaching environments that made learned culture visible in Cordoba, Fez, and related centers.