Marked Córdoba

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

Al-Andalus

For nearly eight centuries, much of Spain and Portugal was ruled by Muslims. Córdoba was one of Europe’s greatest cities, and Muslims, Jews and Christians lived side by side, not always peacefully, until the fall of Granada in 1492.

Place
Córdoba · Madinat al-Zahra · Toledo · GranadaEurope
Laid out as
A civilisationA society seen from the inside: its rulers, places, work, beliefs and daily life, laid out like the rooms of a house.
Lessons
7 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. IAcross the strait in 711
  2. IIThe Great Mosque of Córdoba
  3. IIIAbd al-Rahman III, caliph
  4. IVThree faiths
  5. VIbn Rushd and Maimonides
  6. VIThe Alhambra
  7. VIIGranada falls

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Abd al-Rahman III
  • Lubna of Córdoba
  • Ibn Rushd (Averroes)
  • Maimonides
  • Muhammad XII

Objects

  • Ivory caskets
  • The Alhambra
  • Astrolabes of al-Andalus

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

AD 711 to 1492. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?