Who were the Moors of Spain and what were they doing at the time of the European Dark Ages?
Who were the Moors of Spain and what were they doing at the time of the European Dark Ages? Also, how does this relate to African-Americans today?
The Moors were and are Black African people. They are most famously know for their adventures in Spain (750 – 1492 AD), but their history goes back centuries before the time of the European Dark Ages. I mention this because some have come to define Moors only as Muslims that came through North Africa from Arabia. But Blacks in Africa were called Moors during the time of the Roman Empire, long before Islam came to exist in its present form:
“When the Romans entered West Africa in 46 B.C., they saw Africans and called them Maures, from the Greek adjective Mauros, meaning dark or black. It is from Mauros and the Latin term Marues that the word Moor is derived. Since the inhabitants of North Africa were black, the Romans and later the Europeans called them Moors. It is no coincidence that the land inhabited by the Moors was called Mauritania and Morocco, meaning "Land of the Blacks."
Runoko Rashidi, The Golden Age of the Moor, Edited by Ivan Van Sertima
The Moors were of as many shades of Black as African-Americans. And, because some were of lighter skin complexion, early European scholars chose to view them as a dark skinned Caucasians. The reason for this choice… The Moors gave Europe (via Spain) their present day educational system.
The University style of education originated with the learning centers and libraries established in Spain centuries before Oxford University (the oldest English University) was founded (1096AD supposedly). When we research the beginnings of Oxford we find:
“As the oldest university in the English-speaking world, Oxford is a unique and historic institution. There is no clear date of foundation, but teaching existed at Oxford in some form in 1096 and developed rapidly from 1167….”
Taken from the Oxford University Website
“…no clear date of foundation…teaching existed in some form.…” In other words, they don’t know when or exactly how it began. But, in Spain learning centers existed nearly everywhere. These learning centers were called “Madrasahs” which means literally - a place of learning. The word “Madrasah” is an Arabic word. The Black Africans that had taken over Spain were Muslim converts who learned the Arabic language via the teaching of the Quran (the Muslim Holy Book).
The schooling system, which DID NOT exist at the beginning of the formation of the Islamic world, developed over time as early Arabs journeyed into Africa and learned from the various African Priests (Scholars) like unto the Greeks. That learning was preserved and built upon by later thinkers and teachers and became the basis of the Madrasahs.
I say the above (in brief) to emphasize that the current status of Blacks in the American educational system is not reflective of who and what we really are. Blacks are the founders of education and have been the tool of its spread from ancient times. Our current relationship to education has been mired by our lack of pertinent connectivity to it. We have not been shown our true relationship with education therefore we have no real concern for it outside of its requirement to make money. That in itself is not enough! To reduce education to a means of providing for one’s family is to lower its true value from becoming a constructive force in the development of humanity.
I focus on the Moors in Spain because of what was founded there while the rest of Europe languished in a state of complete mental and spiritual ignorance. While they were in the Dark Ages We were spreading light unto he world.
Realize who you really are!
Anthony (Tony) Stewart
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The Moors were and are Black African people. They are most famously know for their adventures in Spain (750 – 1492 AD), but their history goes back centuries before the time of the European Dark Ages. I mention this because some have come to define Moors only as Muslims that came through North Africa from Arabia. But Blacks in Africa were called Moors during the time of the Roman Empire, long before Islam came to exist in its present form:
“When the Romans entered West Africa in 46 B.C., they saw Africans and called them Maures, from the Greek adjective Mauros, meaning dark or black. It is from Mauros and the Latin term Marues that the word Moor is derived. Since the inhabitants of North Africa were black, the Romans and later the Europeans called them Moors. It is no coincidence that the land inhabited by the Moors was called Mauritania and Morocco, meaning "Land of the Blacks."
Runoko Rashidi, The Golden Age of the Moor, Edited by Ivan Van Sertima
The Moors were of as many shades of Black as African-Americans. And, because some were of lighter skin complexion, early European scholars chose to view them as a dark skinned Caucasians. The reason for this choice… The Moors gave Europe (via Spain) their present day educational system.
The University style of education originated with the learning centers and libraries established in Spain centuries before Oxford University (the oldest English University) was founded (1096AD supposedly). When we research the beginnings of Oxford we find:
“As the oldest university in the English-speaking world, Oxford is a unique and historic institution. There is no clear date of foundation, but teaching existed at Oxford in some form in 1096 and developed rapidly from 1167….”
Taken from the Oxford University Website
“…no clear date of foundation…teaching existed in some form.…” In other words, they don’t know when or exactly how it began. But, in Spain learning centers existed nearly everywhere. These learning centers were called “Madrasahs” which means literally - a place of learning. The word “Madrasah” is an Arabic word. The Black Africans that had taken over Spain were Muslim converts who learned the Arabic language via the teaching of the Quran (the Muslim Holy Book).
The schooling system, which DID NOT exist at the beginning of the formation of the Islamic world, developed over time as early Arabs journeyed into Africa and learned from the various African Priests (Scholars) like unto the Greeks. That learning was preserved and built upon by later thinkers and teachers and became the basis of the Madrasahs.
I say the above (in brief) to emphasize that the current status of Blacks in the American educational system is not reflective of who and what we really are. Blacks are the founders of education and have been the tool of its spread from ancient times. Our current relationship to education has been mired by our lack of pertinent connectivity to it. We have not been shown our true relationship with education therefore we have no real concern for it outside of its requirement to make money. That in itself is not enough! To reduce education to a means of providing for one’s family is to lower its true value from becoming a constructive force in the development of humanity.
I focus on the Moors in Spain because of what was founded there while the rest of Europe languished in a state of complete mental and spiritual ignorance. While they were in the Dark Ages We were spreading light unto he world.
Realize who you really are!
Anthony (Tony) Stewart
Polymath
Author
Shift: Stop, Think and Be Without Doubt
www.stopthinkandbe.com
Narrator
The Mis-Education of the Negro Audiobook
www.themiseducationofthenegro.com
Technology Consultant
The Anthony Report
www.theanthonyreport.com
Composer
Vizual Classics
Speaker
Experience More
www.experiencemore.net
Founder
Black Civilization Archive
www.blackcivilizationarchive.com
Publisher
The Movie Screen
www.themoviescreen.com
Media Content Producer
Graphic Designer, Web Designer, Video Editor, Cameraman, Motion Graphics Artist
*All of my sites and promotional material and of the many clients I've served
Hello Mr. Anthony Stewart,
Let me tell you who Black Americans are. First, let me establish my premise.
All dark skinned people or Black people are different people from each other within the scientific category of Negroid people. The same as not all Caucasian people are just one kind of people, scientifically speaking. For instance, an Ireland Caucasian person is not the same as an American Caucasian person or an Australian Caucasian person.
For example, not all blackbirds are crows. Some blackbirds are ravens, and some of grackle birds.
Now, Black Americans who are descendents of slaves are a distinct kind of Blacks from other blacks. For example, an Ethiopian Black person is not the same person as a Black American person is.
Black Americans who are descendents of slaves are a new breed or race of people that has emerged out of the ashes of slavery. The race of Black Americans who are descendents of slaves is no more than 500 years old.
Black Americans are a people that resulted from the many different kinds of African slave women sold to White American men mostly of British descent by the slave traders. Then, these White British men bred themselves with these African slave women from the 15th century to the late 18th century. They wanted to increase their slave population as well as having some pleasure. The people that resulted from this breeding process are who Black Americans are today.
Black Americans who are descendents of slaves have nothing to do with the Moors and Morocco or any other kind of Black people. What makes us a unique people is the fact that we are descendents of slaves while no other Blacks are as we are from slavery. In fact, no other slavery in the history of humanity was like our slavery and I do not want you to forget that.
Now, I do not want to go on any further until you get the significance of what I just written down in your head good. Your understanding shows our extremely ignorance we are not to know who we are. We are as a fatherless child.
However, I am here to straighten it all out. We are going to become a sovereign people on a portion of this continent that we could call our very own country with borders. But, we must first know who we are.
Lastly, please take no offense to my vernacular or the style of my writing.
Tell me what you think.