Encyclopaedia of Spread of Islam in the West History, Globalisation and Impact on Other Religions (The Quranic Concept of War and Peace)

The history of Arab and Islamic rule in the Iberian peninsula is probably one ot the most studied periods ot European history, but the variety and quantity of writing has not escaped the prejudices of the authors. For centuries after the Arab conquest, European accounts of Arab rule in Iberia were negative. European points of view started changing with the Protestant Reformation, which resulted in new descriptions of the period of Islamic rule in Spain as a “golden age” (mostly as a reaction aga