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What are some good books on the Moors? I know this is sort of a /his/ question but they tend to give scant assistance in recommending actual book titles and tend to just want to discuss history per se

>> No.20433726

>>20433470
>/his/
>Discussing history
More like “lol spain is brown because of them” x 500
Also if you can’t read French or Spanish it’s over.

>> No.20433739

>go to university library catalog (any major one will do)
>search keywords related to your search like "berbers history" or "almoravids" "almohads" "taifas" "barbary pirates"
>skim the list for general-looking titles (and any titles you're specifically interested in obviously)
>open a few general ones
>look for Subject
>look at whatever the galactic association of librarians has decided to call this subject field, like Subject-History-Barbary Kingdoms or Subject-History-North Africa
>open a few subject fields
>scroll around looking for general overview books
>either open newish ones that look comprehensive, or open old classic ones that were probably the standard book on the topic for 50 years or something
>google a few to see which ones you like
>libgen the winners
>see which ones you like
>read

>> No.20433749

>>20433470
Quran.com

Read the book they follow before you read about them

The Moorish Islamic poetry is top-tier so get into that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Moorish_writers

in this section go to ibn Arabi

Hope you find this helpful inshaAllah, habibi

>> No.20433761

>>20433739
good listen to him to up ur dedication

>> No.20433764

It's MOOPS!

>> No.20433769

>>20433470
I think you mean the Moops.

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>>20433764
>mfw I'm bubble boy

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20433805

>>20433470
This guy is Puerto Rican actor Luis Guzman, he's genetically indistinguishable from a "Moor": combination of Mediterranean & subsaharan.

>> No.20434026

The Almohad and Almoravid Empires

>> No.20434171

>>20433470
Hugh Kennedy's "Muslim Spain and Portugal: A Political History of al-Andalus"

>> No.20434335

>>20434171
Islamic Spain =/ the Moors.

>> No.20435539

Islamic Spain & Portugal by Hugh Kennedy. It covers the whole period so it isn't as in-depth as some would like.

>> No.20435574

Moorish Spain by Richard fletcher.

A history of the Arab people by Houdini or whatever

>> No.20436329

>>20433470

It's a work of fiction, but the Captive's Tale from the Quixote was written by a man who was legit a Moorish slave for several years, so you know for sure there was a lot he was telling the truth about:

https://corsairsandcaptivesblog.com/don-quixote-the-captives-tale/