The Jews of al-Andalus

Abstract EN

mh the arrival of the Arab Muslims in Sjmm in 711 A.D., Ihe lemah community gradually developed politically anti eccrtomxany and reached its jvut under IIte Unwyyni Callphale m the 10th ivrt/ury, The Jras uw affouvrf to participate m a myriad ofactlviliti CTOHCUlUng society, and mmy migrated to Andalusia.

uJifrr a shared feeling of cilMivy gran More the Arab conquest.

a series of unjust decrees issued again* the Jitw had hindered Iheir pcVilinl, ecmemic, and cultural detvkfment.

Many /ew* left Spain Under Muslim rulers, however, the lews benefited from numerous adz\mcements of Ike -Andalusia Renaisuncer Many #rm* held >n$h positions, pouetnedproperties, ptucipated in con merer, and regularly communicated with thrir gaonims (religious tstoNMmenlf) in wlmt is mxo I raj and Palestine Through a (ritual ftudy of Western, fernth, and primary Arab sources on I hit era.

it is concluded that the grouing i*!f-identity and setist of inclusion in the larger Andalusian community helped the }nrt to Uei'eicp politically, economically, and culturally.