Sources

Sources

MoorOfUS records should point readers toward public, reviewable sources. The source library can include scholarship, primary-source collections, museum records, archive records, archaeological context, maps, and institutional references.

Source use

Sources are used to support specific claims. A source about early al-Andalus should not be treated as proof for every later Moorish identity claim. A source about architecture should not be treated as proof of private lineage.

Source suggestions

Send source suggestions to editorial@moorofus.org with a citation, URL when available, and a note explaining which record it supports.

Source quality

MoorOfUS gives priority to sources readers can inspect. Strong anchors include named scholarship, primary-source editions, museum collection records, public archives, institutional timelines, library records, archaeological context, government or civic records, and clearly dated heritage records. A source does not need to answer every question to be useful, but it should support the specific statement attached to it.

Source limits

Every source has limits. A museum title can document how an object is cataloged without proving modern identity. A heritage record can document a site without proving the ancestry of every builder or visitor. A modern government category can explain present-day administrative language without becoming a medieval category. A community memory source can document public memory without replacing historical evidence.

How sources are used

Source records should explain what the source supports and what it does not support. When a claim page uses several sources, each source should do a defined job: regional context, terminology, visual culture, legal or administrative language, public memory, or site-specific history. This keeps the reader from treating a citation list as a pile of authority instead of a source trail.

Source Records

These source records anchor claim reviews and are excluded from the public sitemap while the library matures.

• Glick, Thomas F. *Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages* (2nd ed.)Secondary scholarship anchor for early al-Andalus and interreligious society, used to keep Moorish identity claims tied to cautious historical context.
• Federal Register: 2024 Revisions to OMB Statistical Policy Directive No. 15Federal Register notice used as a public anchor for U.S. race and ethnicity data standards, especially the distinction between administrative categories and biological or genetic definitions.
• Library of Congress: *The Holy Koran of the Moorish Science Temple of America: Circle 7*Library of Congress digitized item connected to Drew Ali and the Moorish Science Temple of America, used to anchor modern American Moorish public-history claims in a dated source trail.
• Met Heilbrunn Essay: Artistic Interaction among Cultures in Medieval IberiaMet museum essay on artistic exchange among Muslims, Christians, and Jews in medieval Iberia, used for visual-culture context without treating style as ancestry proof.
• Met Heilbrunn Timeline: Egypt, 8000-2000 B.C.Met institutional chronology for ancient Egypt and northern ancient Nubia, used to separate Nile Valley chronology from medieval Moorish and Andalusi claims.
• Met Heilbrunn Timeline: Iberian Peninsula, 500-1000 A.D.Met institutional chronology for Iberia from 500 to 1000, used to frame early al-Andalus, Umayyad rule, and interreligious exchange in dated context.
• Met Heilbrunn Timeline: Western North Africa (The Maghrib), 1000-1400 A.D.Met institutional chronology for the medieval Maghrib from 1000 to 1400, used for Almoravid, Almohad, Hafsid, Marinid, and Zayyanid regional context.
• Met Heilbrunn Timeline: Western North Africa, 1000 B.C.-1 A.D.Met institutional chronology for ancient western North Africa, used to keep Carthage, Numidia, Mauritania, and Roman-era context distinct from medieval Moorish labels.
• Met Heilbrunn Timeline: Western North Africa (The Maghrib), 500-1000 A.D.Met institutional chronology for the early Islamic Maghrib, used to frame North African regional context without reducing it to modern identity categories.
• Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative: About the DatabaseResearch database anchor for Islamicate scientific manuscripts, used to attach science claims to catalogued authors, works, fields, and manuscript witnesses.
• National Pan-Hellenic Council: Our HistoryNational Pan-Hellenic Council history page used as a public organizational anchor for Divine Nine context without treating private ritual claims as source-backed evidence.
• Smithsonian: Prophet Noble Drew Ali, Founder of Moorish Science Temple of AmericaSmithsonian museum object record for Prophet Noble Drew Ali, used as a public anchor for modern Moorish Science Temple history and public memory.
• UNESCO World Heritage Centre: Alhambra, Generalife and Albayzin, GranadaUNESCO World Heritage record for the Alhambra, Generalife, and Albayzin, used as a site-specific anchor for Nasrid Granada, architecture, gardens, and public memory.
• UNESCO World Heritage Centre: Historic Centre of CordobaUNESCO World Heritage record for Cordoba, used as a site-specific anchor for medieval Islamic and later Christian architectural history.