Start With The Core Histories
Use these for broad chronology, public orientation, and the first pass on major claims.
Sources
Use source records to check what each article, claim, person, place, or event is resting on, and to find the right specialist work before making a broad claim.
Source Library
Choose The Right Source First
These routes help readers move from broad orientation to specialist evidence without treating every bibliography entry as interchangeable.
Check Specialist Periods
Move here when the claim depends on taifas, Maghrebi empires, Nasrid Granada, or Morisco history.
Follow Texts And Ideas
Open translated primary-source editions and intellectual biographies before simplifying major thinkers.
Ground Places, Art, And Institutions
Use these when the page needs material culture, al-Qarawiyyin, medicine, trade, or late Granada context.
Browse
Find Your Way In
Source Types
Separate primary-source editions, secondary works, books, and source status before reading.
Topics
Follow themes like architecture, terminology, law, trade, and myth checking.
Regions
Browse by geography, including al-Andalus, the Maghreb, Iberia, and wider connected regions.
Eras
Move through the record by century, dynasty, and major historical period.
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Tazi, Abdelhadi. Jami’ al-Qarawiyyin
A major specialist history of al-Qarawiyyin as mosque and university in Fez, useful for institutional history, architecture, and the limits of founding traditions.
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Walker, Robin / The Black Secret Education Project. 100 Black History Facts
A public-facing Black history fact collection associated with Robin Walker and The Black Secret Education Project. For Moor History Center, it is useful as a signpost into reader interests, not as a source to…
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Wasserstein, David J. The Rise and Fall of the Party-Kings
A specialist study of taifa politics and society from 1002 to 1086, useful for post-caliphal fragmentation, regional rulers, and courtly power.