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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. "
The History of Chess: From the Time of the Early Invention of the Game in ... - Page 182
by Duncan Forbes - 1860 - 312 pages
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History of Arabia, Ancient and Modern:: Containing a Description ..., Volume 2

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...
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The History of Arabia: Ancient and Modern ...

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...
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The History of the Overthrow of the Roman Empire, and the Foundation of the ...

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...
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Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts

William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1846 - 922 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...
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The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the ..., Parts 26-30

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...
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Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English ..., Volume 5

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...
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Chambers's Miscellany of Instructive & Entertaining Tracts, Volumes 9-10

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...
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Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts, Volume 9

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...
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A Dictionary of Islam: Being a Cyclopaedia of the Doctrines, Rites ...

Thomas Patrick Hughes - Religion - 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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