 | Andrew Crichton - Arabian Peninsula - 1833 - 476 pages
...Arabian learning shone with a brighter lustre, and continued to flourish to a later period, than in the schools of the East. Cordova, Seville, and Granada,...magnificence of their academies, colleges, and libraries. The former city, celebrated as the birthplace of the poet Lucan and the two Senecas, possessed a celebrated... | |
 | Andrew Crichton - Arabian Peninsula - 1834 - 436 pages
...Arabian learning shone with a brighter lustre, and continued to flourish to a later period, than in the schools of the East. Cordova, Seville, and Granada...magnificence of their academies, colleges, and libraries. The former city, celebrated as the birthplace of the poet Lucan and the two Senecas, possessed a celebrated... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - Europe - 1836 - 570 pages
...Abassides of Bagdad, in the encouragement of literature and science. Cordova, Seville, and Grenada, rivalled each other in the magnificence of their academies, colleges and libraries. Great indeed were the calamities that the Saracens had brought upon the civilized world, but the benefits... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1846 - 902 pages
..."Arabian learning shone with a brighter lustre, and continued to flourish to a later period, than in the schools of the East. Cordova, Seville, and Granada,...magnificence of their academies, colleges, and libraries. Casiri has enumerated the names and writings of nearly 170 eminent men, natives of Cordova alone. Hakem... | |
 | 1868 - 676 pages
...Thither flocked not only the young nobles of Spain, but those also of distant countries. Crichton says, ' Cordova, Seville, and Granada, rivalled each other...magnificence of their academies, colleges, and libraries.' Casivi has enumerated the names and writings of nearly one hundred and seventy eminent men, natives... | |
 | 1868 - 688 pages
...Thither flocked not only the young nobles of Spain, bnt those also of distant countries. Crichton snys, ' Cordova, Seville, and Granada, rivalled each other...magnificence of their academies, colleges, and libraries.' Casivi has enumerated the names and writings of nearly one hundred and seventy eminent men, natives... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Anthologies - 1870 - 526 pages
...Arabian learning shone with a brighter lustre, and continued to flourish to a later period, than in the schools of the East. Cordova, Seville, and Granada...magnificence of their academies, colleges, and libraries. Casiri has enumerated the names and writings of nearly 170 eminent men, natives of Cordova alone. Hakem... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1870 - 276 pages
...Arabian learning shone with a brighter lustre, and continued to flourish to a later period, than in the schools of the East. Cordova, Seville, and Granada...magnificence of their academies, colleges, and libraries. Casiri has enumerated the names and writings of nearly 170 eminent men, natives of Cordova alone. Hakem... | |
 | Thomas Patrick Hughes - Islam - 1885 - 794 pages
...were ander Madia rule for several centuries (Cordova, fron? AD. 755 to 1230; Granada, to AD 1484). rivalled each other in the magnificence of their academies, colleges, and libraries. Muslim historians say that Cordova alone has produced not fewer than 170 eminent men, and its library,... | |
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Arabian learning shone with a brighter lustre, and continued to flourish to a later period, than in the schools of the East. Cordova, Seville, and Granada, rivalled each other in the magnificence of their academies, colleges, and libraries. 