Colonial Al-Andalus

The widespread belief that Spain and Morocco are joined through their Andalusi past from a time when Christians, Muslims, and Jews coexisted in medieval Iberia actually arose in the 1800s, as Spain's justification for colonizing Morocco. Eric Calderwood shows how a piece of Spanish propaganda gradua [...]
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The widespread belief that Spain and Morocco are joined through their Andalusi past from a time when Christians, Muslims, and Jews coexisted in medieval Iberia actually arose in the 1800s, as Spain's justification for colonizing Morocco. Eric Calderwood shows how a piece of Spanish propaganda gradually became a tenet of Moroccan nationalism.