"The Ornament of the World. How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture Tolerance in Medieval Spain" by Maria Rosa Menocal inspired me to research “Convivencia” at Al-Andalus and the Caliphate of Cordoba, Spain, between the years 756 to 1031. This research is published on Researchgate website entitled "Convivencia: A Model for Peace between Muslim, Christian and Jewish Cultures"
Maria Rosa Monecal describes beautifully the period of almost four centuries, when Medieval Spain was ruled by the Moors and the believers in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam lived together in peace and harmony. La Convivencia refers to this coexistence.
For over 400 years, knowledge and mysticism thrived in the Spanish towns of Cordoba, Toledo and Granada, as students and teachers in all three disciplines helped one another to learn, translate, and understand ancient teachings. Unprecedented level of scientific, philosophical, and metaphysical discovery, rendering medieval Spain the ornament of the world influencing many in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa for years to come.
While reading this book I recall being at my mother's side, who over the years taught me to cherish the values between religions, races and genders and the importance of trying to understand the interdependence between us. Like me, she was born in Andalusia, and I can now understand that many of her Christian values must have also originated from that period in Southern Spain.
In my book "Network Africa A Complex System" I describes my experiences living and working in countries with very different social environments influenced by Christian, Muslim, Hindu and Jewish religions. The importance of that interdependence between religions, races and genders was a key factor in living the spirit of Convivencia.
I have also read Rabbi Jonathan Sacks' book "Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence". This is also a brilliant and well written book on Abrahamic religions over the ages that gives an in-depth understanding of this complex and important group of cultures and religions that have left their mark on civilization. It adds profound yet clear pointers of how to prevent political power from taking the world into a destructive war scenarios like they are developing in the Middle East, Europe and Africa.
Both these books describe the critical importance of addressing the deteriorating conditions that dominate our lives and those in power who are being driven to deal with the aggressive forces through military interventions, when we have an example of how Judaism, Christianity, and Islam lived together in peace and harmony.
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