Gems of al-Andalus
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🔍 Interested in the history of Al-Andalus, the North African Desert, and the Maliki school. Researcher at @usul_ai and Arabic teacher
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♦️Imām al-Qurtubī said commenting on the verse:

وَنَزَعَ يَدَهُ فَإِذَا هِيَ بَيْضَاءُ لِلنَّاظِرِينَ -

And he drew out his hand, and behold! it was white (with radiance) for the beholders.7:108

وكان موسى أسمر شديد السمرة

Musa was of a very brown (dark) complexion.

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♦️The city of Taroudant.

This city also known as, “little Marrakesh” is known to be one of the oldest cities in Morocco with much rich history and heritage.

Under the rule of the Almoravids (also known famously in Arabic as, al-Murātibūn), the state with its territory stretching from Al-Andalus to southern Morocco, briefly helped made the city of Tarodant become a place of administration.

The Amīr, Yoūsef Ibn Tashfīn who unified the Muslims in Al-Andalus helped established this city with its construction and it’s architectural land.

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al-Muwata written Andalusian script from around 700-800 Hijiri (13/14th century). Origin could be from al-Andalus or North Africa.

45 folios and costs 19,700 Euros/17,000 British pounds.

Source: https://t.me/estudiosislamicos

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♦️Abbas ibn Firnas al-Andalusī

Lost and forgotten history from the Andalusians but to be revived in the hearts of the people.

Ibn Firnas was a famous Berber man from Ronda, al-Andalus, born around 194 A.H (810) He was known for his many skills in invention, medicine, poetry, etc.

He was known to be the first person ever to make a successful attempt in flying. After constructing his own machine in flying, he took flight successfully while onlookers observed. But he eventually hurt himself while trying to land after flying at high speed.

He later learned the reason why he crashed landed after observing the tails of birds and he needed to build a tail like invention for landing as well.

The Algerian Maliki scholar and famous historian from Telcem, Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqarī, who also wrote a giant work on the history of al-Andalus said about the event:

“Among other very curious experiments which he made, one is his trying to fly. He covered himself with feathers for the purpose, attached a couple of wings to his body, and, getting on an eminence, flung himself down into the air, when according to the testimony of several trustworthy writers who witnessed the performance, he flew a considerable distance, as if he had been a bird, but, in alighting again on the place whence he had started, his back was very much hurt, for not knowing that birds when they alight come down upon their tails, he forgot to provide himself with one.”

Abbas ibn Ibn Farnisal-Andalusī had many other achievements that he accomplished in his life that soon can be covered on the telegram channel, In’Shā’Allāh.

Sources:
-Ilmfeed

-Al adat wa al taqalid fi al-mujtama al-Maghribi

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Ibn Hazm al-Andalusī:

It is separation that has moved the poets to weep over former trysting-places so that they shed tears freely upon traces of old places and sprinkled the abodes with the water of yearning. As they remembered the happy hours that once passed there.

Ring of the Dove🕊

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It’s an enjoyable sight to see Spanish on the back of some books from Andalusian scholars.

Dar al-Kettaniyah publications amongst those who try to publish new Andalusian books often.

📷 Taken in Summer. Tetuan 1440 A.H

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