Culture

In early 12th-century Muslim Spain, a gifted philosopher, mathematician, poet, and medical doctor was born. Ibn Tufayl became known in the West as Abubacer.

One of the world's most influential musical cultures flourished from the eighth to the 15th century in the southern Iberian realm called al-Andalus by the Arabs who lived and ruled there.

Shakespeare’s Muslim characters in “Titus Adronicus”, “The Merchant of Venice” and “Othello” are more than simple reflections of the period's prejudices