11 Facts About Moorish Spain

Moorish Spain was succeeded by his son, Hisham I, who secured power of exiling his brother who had tried to rebel against him.

Moorish Spain'sham enjoyed a stable reign of eight years and was succeeded by his son Al-Hakam I The next few decades were relatively uneventful, with only occasional minor rebellions, and saw the rise of the emirate.

Moorish Spain rose to power with no opposition and sought to reform the emirate.

Moorish Spain quickly reorganized the bureaucracy to be more efficient and built many mosques across the emirate.

Moorish Spain's reign marked a decline in the emirate, which was ended by Abd al-Rahman III.

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Moorish Spain declared that the next emir would be his grandson Abd al-Rahman III, ignoring the claims of his four living children.

Moorish Spain's book is significant because it uses principles of Galenic medicine, such as humorism and the theory of four temperaments, as the basis of its medical recommendations.

Moorish Spain built on the work of older astronomers, like Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, whose astronomical tables he wrote a discussion on and subsequently improved.

Moorish Spain accurately calculated the motion of the solar apogee to be 12.

Moorish Spain'storian Said al-Andalus wrote that Caliph Abd-ar-Rahman III had collected libraries of books and granted patronage to scholars of medicine and "ancient sciences".

Moorish Spain is said to have brought the 51 "Epistles of the Brethren of Purity" to al-Andalus and added the compendium to this work, although it is quite possible that it was added later by another scholar with the name al-Majriti.