“The Moors organised that wonderful kingdom of Cordova, which was the marvel of the Middle Ages, and, when all Europe was plunged in barbaric ignorance and strife, alone held the torch of learning and civilisation bright and shining before the Western world.” (Quoted in Ameer Ali Syed, Short History of the Saracens, p. 115.)

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