In response to the blatant rewriting of Muslim Spain by Mr.Andrew Nitzberg below:I would like to point out:1. The fanatical al-Muwahhidun group opressed Christians and Jews (and they weren't even Arab) towards the end of Muslim reign. Muslims rules Spain 700+ years. How does a few decades years erase the proposrity of all the other centuries??2. Were not the al-Muwahhidun dispised by Spain's Muslims? (the answer is yes)3. Salahuddin saved Maimonades....duh!! Was he not the hero of the muslim world?The danger of a man with a history degree is that he will try and pull the old hocus-pokus ala-kazam on you and distort, fabricate, or abrogate it right under your nose.