re: #2 Obdicut

Not to mention that, later, Cordoba was reconquered by the Christians. The Almohads defeated the Almoravids, who had defeated the much more moderate Caliphs there previously— and were then defeated in turn by the Christians and driven out of Spain.

So I’ve really failed to understand how naming a place after a city that, while it was Muslim, was a flourishing center of ecumenical thought and tolerance and then was conquered first by more radical Muslims and then by Christians is supposed to symbolize a Muslim victory.

Finally: I’d rather have been a Jew under the caliphs in Cordoba than under the Catholic Inquisition in Cordoba.

Alhambra Decree

The Alhambra Decree (also known as the Edict of Expulsion) was an edict issued on 31 March 1492 by the joint Catholic Monarchs of Spain (Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon) ordering the expulsion of Jews from the Kingdom of Spain and its territories and possessions by 31 July of that year.

The edict was formally revoked on 16 December 1968,[2] following the Second Vatican Council. Today, the number of Jews in Spain is estimated at 50,000.

Continues.

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