{"id":1148,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-07T12:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:55:10","slug":"moorish-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=1148","title":{"rendered":"Moorish Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pIH1xo4T0u0?si=NaGdqjHO8MntI6xY\" width=\"280\" height=\"155\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The bringers of light to a dark Europe<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">How African knowledge<br \/>\nignited Europe\u2019s Renaissance.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Moorish-empire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"151\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">For over 700 years, Black kings ruled, from the battlefields of Spain to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alc\u00e1zar\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Alc\u00e1zars<\/span><\/a> (palaces) of Sicily, from Cologne\u2019s cathedrals to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alhambra\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Granada\u2019s Alhambra<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Since 711 AD, their scholars, architects, and scientists brought medicine, astronomy, mathematics, and architecture that transformed the EU continent forever.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The Moors built cities with running water, hospitals, libraries, streetlights, centuries before the rest of Europe caught up.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/King-of-Sicily.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"147\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Their names include Tariq ibn Ziyad, Abd al-Rahman, Almanzor, Yusuf ibn Tashfin, Hasan al-Kalbi, and more:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Ruiner-of-the-Visigoths.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"101\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Moorish-king.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"102\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">They built cities (Seville, Segovia, Granada, Cordoba, etc.) commanded armies, shaped EU history, yet their dark faces and golden crowns were erased from EU history books.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Bldr-of-Cordoba-70-libraries.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"141\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.santiagoturismo.com\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Santiago de Compostela<\/span><\/a> is known as the culmination of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route, and the alleged burial site of the Biblical apostle St. James, whose remains lie within its <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Santiago_de_Compostela_Cathedral\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Catedral<\/span><\/a>. The Moorish <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Almanzor\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">King Almanzor<\/span><\/a> conquered the town and had pilgrims carry the Catedral bell on their backs all the way to Cordoba in 997:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/Almanzor-997-Bell-of-Santiago-de-Compostola-to-Cordoba.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"152\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">This is the untold story of 10 forgotten Black kings of Europe: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moors\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">the Moors<\/span><\/a> who changed the course of history, including <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atlantic_voyage_of_the_predecessor_of_Mansa_Musa\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Abu Bakr II<\/span><\/a>, who, 700 years ago, sailed across the Atlantic to the Americas with 2000 ships:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2025-pics\/10-forgotten-blck-kings%20of%20Eu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"175\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uXbKAJt0ruA?si=_FoWFFWcLgjtcXfB\" width=\"280\" height=\"155\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"?p=1149\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bringers of light to a dark Europe How African knowledge ignited Europe\u2019s Renaissance. For over 700 years, Black kings ruled, from the battlefields of Spain to the Alc\u00e1zars (palaces) of Sicily, from Cologne\u2019s cathedrals to Granada\u2019s Alhambra. Since 711 AD, their scholars, architects, and scientists brought medicine, astronomy, mathematics, and architecture that transformed the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6648,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions\/6648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}