"The noble Moor of Spain is anything but a pure Arab of the desert, he is half a Berber (from the Aryan family) and hi…"

"'Moorish' Spain does at least have the merit of reminding us that the bulk of the invaders and settlers were Moors, i…"

"Who were these conquerors, who had so quickly and so completely overturned the strongest western European monarchy of…"

"The Andalusians themselves were of varied origins. The numerically tiny Arab elite had intermarried with other people…"

"For a century, the Arabs tribes gave Islam the first of these victories. Then the rough mountain peoples of North Afr…"

"In one sense the word 'Moor' means the Mohammedan Berbers and Arabs of north-western Africa, with some Syrians, who c…"

"These Moors cultivated the sciences with success, and taught Spain and Italy for five centuries."

"It was, however, from Spain, and not from Arabia, that a knowledge of eastern mathematics first came into western Eur…"

"Our obligations to the Spanish Moors in the arts of life are even more marked than in the higher branches of sciences."

"Christianity destroyed for us the whole harvest of ancient civilization, and later it also destroyed for us the whole…"