For nearly eight centuries -- from the Muslim conquest of Spain in 711 to the final expulsion of the Jews in 1492 -- Muslims, Jews and Christians shared a common Andalusian culture under alternating Muslim and Christian rule. Following their expulsion, the Spanish and Arabic- speaking Jews joined pre-existing diasporic communities and established new ones across the Mediterranean and beyond. In the twentieth century, radical social and political upheavals in the former Ottoman and European-occupied territories led to the mass exodus of Jews from Turkey and the Arab Mediterranean, with the...
For nearly eight centuries -- from the Muslim conquest of Spain in 711 to the final expulsion of the Jews in 1492 -- Muslims, Jews and Christians shar...
