Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Stark: not so enlightened

...as Richard Fletcher put it, "Moorish Spain was not a tolerant and enlightened society even in its most cultivated epoch".  Indeed, it should be noted that when the Maimonides family and other Jews were required to convert or leave Moorish Spain, many Jews migrated to the Christian areas of northern Spain.

One True God, p169.

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