emirate of granada

I find the Emirate of Granada to be a fairly interesting state. It was the final remaining rump of the once-so-might al-Andalus, but that didn't make it a backwater by any means. Granada was economically prosperous and culturally vibrant, and Muslims, Christians, and Jews seemingly lived...

The Narsid Dynasty of the Emirate of Granada is probably the most well known for being the last Muslim dynasty on the Iberian Peninsula during the Reconquista. After surviving for centuries, they finally were conquered in 1492 by Castille and Aragon under the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella I and...

The Battle of Río Salado put a decisive stop to the Marinids' attempt to expand into the Iberian Peninsula. They were laying siege to Tarifa at the time, and almost took it by assault 20 days before the battle, so a decent POD for the Marinids to win could be having them capture Tarifa and thus...

The Marinids were the last Berber dynasty to have a foothold in the Iberian Peninsula, a foothold that was lost after their defeat at the Battle of the Río Salado in 1340. They also unified the Maghreb under their rule, but said unification was short-lived. How successful could they be with a...

This is part of an alternative historical ethnography of a village in the Alpujarras in contemporary times as if the reconquista had happened but was reconquered instead of the inquisition and expulsions happening. It details the lives of 'Latino' speaking villages of mixed Muslim and Catholic...