Month: April 2020

One of the most debate issues about Al-Andalus is the question of convivencia, co-existence or living together. Some academic circles promote the flourishing of a diversified society where people’s religion, spiritual or worldly matters co-existed peacefully. Others share the view that it was just a utopia that could never materialize. Me, as a writer, when [...]

The Black Death, the plague of 1348-1349 in Granada wiped out one third of the population but it transformed the Christian and the Islamic world in Andalus. At the time of great political unrest the last thing any empire was praying for was a disease that would jeopardize political, economic, social stability and in the [...]