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Session 1:

• The arrival of Muslims in al-Andalus

• The entry of Tariq bin Ziyad and Musa ibn Nusayr 

• Count Julian and La Cava Rumiya 

•  History of Visigoths, Arianism and strengths and weaknesses

• Battle of Gaudelete

• Treaty with Theodoric and Jewish treatment 

• Christians who fled north - Pelago and Northern Christians

• Battle of Covadonga

• 721 Toulouse

• 730 Aquitaine 

• 732 The Battle of Tours

Session 2:

• Abdul Rahman I (755) - Umayyad prince

• 750 Abbasid revolution and the escape of a prince

• The building of Masjid Qurtuba and the growth of a community 

• Abdur Rahman II ...

• The Mozarab phenomenon

• Christian martyr movement 

• Abdur Rahman III 

• Cordoba, the city of a thousand lights

• The Convivencia and peak of a civilisation

• Madina al-Zahra 

• Seville

• Scientists of botany

• Female scholars and artisans 

• Ibn Amir al-Mansur and northern campaigns 

• Santiago de Compostela

Session 3:

• Muluk al-Tawa'if  (Party kingdoms) caused by the collapse of Umayyad rule in 1031

• Division and weaknesses

• Growing Christian strength - Urban II responding to appeal of Alexius Comnenus (Orthodox church)/crusade had its genesis in Iberia, Clero Vultutnensi papal bull - Zaragossa/1089 Urban II indulgence for those who rescued church of Tarragona

• The impact of the Crusades

• Everything is in flux - the year of death of caliphs

• Ali Ibn Tahir al-Sulami - sought to inspire confidence and create impact 1105 /1187 

• Sometimes you can't predict what could happen - the year of the death of the caliph

• Al-Rundi - li Kulli Shay'in... 

  
  

  Moriscos

• Aljamiado, fiqh for the oppressed and hidden lives

• The Tale of Carcayonna the Handless Maiden

• Resistance - passive and active

• Enduring legacy

• Yusuf ibn Tashufin - Murabitun and renewal 

  
  

  Fall of Seville

• Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa

• Poem of al-Rundi 

  
  

  End of Cordoba and Expulsion of Muslims

• surveillance and seclusion 

   

  The Birth of Granada

• Bastion of refugees

• Construction of a monument - The Alhambra Palace 

  
  

  1482 The loss of an empire

• Ferdinand and Isabella

• Christopher Columbus and the Americas 

  
  

  The Spanish Inquisition

• Ferdinand, Isabella and Grand Inquisitors

• Dios La Quere! (God Wills It!)

• 1502 Great Fire of Granada 

  
  

  The Al-Pujarras rebellion

• Causes, preparations, attacks 

   

  Moriscos

• Aljamiado, fiqh for the oppressed and hidden lives

• The Tale of Carcayonna the Handless Maiden

• Resistance - passive and active

• Enduring legacy