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ABOUT US:
Al-Andalus Experience encourages like minded organizations to partner with one another, organizing academic study-trips and events throughout Andalusia. Other collaborators are the'MezquitaMayor de Granada' of the Albayzin and the'Alqueríade Rosales Campus', a rural Islamic center, and the recently inaugurated‘Mezquitade la Vega’ and'Casade Oficios Andalusíes', of Granada.
The first program is an'ExpressTour' covering the provinces of al-Andalus: Córdoba, Seville and Granada. The tour explores Islamic heritage, historical centres and monuments. This five day intorduction tour is quite intense, though travellers can make use of their evenings in each location. For a more relaxed pace, with time for shopping, extra activities and extrusions, there is t seven night tour,‘Withinthe Heart of Al-Andalus’.
For those who wish to delve deeper, there are longer ten to twelve day trips, covering various topics—such as, the expulsion of the Moriscos or the spirituality of Ibn Arabi.
Finally, we have a yearly calendar listing our regular tours, city walks, workshops, activities or events.
FORWARD
We study history to discover clues about our modern world, how best to live in it and avoid falling into the same mistakes and patterns.
In the 9thcentury, Al-Andalus served as the stepping stone for Europe and its first monarchic democracy. It is imperative we learn more about Al-Andalus, travel back in time, and come to understand the essence which made it.
The mystery surrounding the introduction of Islam in Spain is one that can be seen in the investigative theories of modern, free thinking historians, such as Ignacio Olagüe, Emilio Gonzalez Ferrín and many others[awkward].Their research of the Iberian Peninsula, before and after Al-Andalus, maintains that the Spanish Inquisition had hidden and re-written much of the area’s“history.”
- OUR APPROACH TO THE HISTORY OF AL-ANDALUS:
- An encounter with the historical paradoxes in Muslim Spain. An exclusive insight from the very first generation of Spanish Muslims since the fall of al-Andalus, seeking for an unbiased and objective historical picture of al-Andalus. Based upon the official historical version and further researches from independent and unbiased professors and experts on the matter we have produced this virtual'IndependentTraveller Guide from Spain to al-Andalus' summarising the main points which will lead you to a complete comprehension of the Islamic period in Spain and the specific importance of the cities and sites visited along our tours. While our physical tours count with a specialist tour conductor from our organization and local official guides for monuments in the different towns, our virtual tour contents is developed by the same team of specialists and guides, just that you can take it independently.
- Al-Andalus was in it's time the most vigorous source of culture in Europe.To a great degree the civilization of al-Andalus was the result of the mutual influences between Christians, Jews and Muslims.
- The print of al-Andalus is present today in many customs, as well as in architecture and romance languages, specially Castillian or regular Spanish language. We are going to take a journey in the past, to go into the cities, walk the streets, enter the homes to understand how the Hispano-Muslim lived, studied, worked and enjoyed their time.
- For the sake of accuracy and objective questioning of what we may hear or know upon the subject, we present an exclusive insight into the history of Al-Andalus. You may find still today some mystery involved around the story of Islam in Spain. In fact, the greatest motivation in our work is to research and promote an unbiased historical view. We intend to continue our work until we have a well balanced equation and illustration of the History of Al-Andalus, though our Virtual Tour Guide application guide. Through participating on any of our tours or services whether it be independently on your own or a part of one of our guided tours, you will get a privileged insight coming from our very own team and select local specialists at each location in our tours.
- The historical study of al-Andalus reveals that the period was indeed one of the richest periods of a complex historical evolution, converting a great part of the Peninsula into a nation ahead of it's time, a centre of knowledge that shone across Europe and was a means to the scientific, literary and artistic phenomenon initiated in Italy in the XIV century called the Renaissance. More over, history reveals the transcendence that this long historical period had over Spanish culture, enriched by the diverse mix. The story of al-Andalus is that of a people that merged their blood, faith and ideas forming an extraordinary civilization, al-Andalus.
- On our tours in Andalusia, through the most diverse yet typical Spanish landscapes, you will be able to'readhistory' directly, having glimpses of places' past as we approach our destinations, the greatest cities of al-Andalus.
- However this history has traditionally been depreciated in Spain, due to a religious, cultural and racial rooted prejudice. Until no less then two decades ago, school books merely mentioned al-Andalus as a reflection of the so called'Reconquista'a series of battles spread over 800 years whereby the Kingdoms of Aragon, Navarra, Castilla and Leon steadily gained land over the'arabized'Spanish Muslim population of Al-Andalus.
- Al-Andalus has been presented for centuries as a Spanish territory occupied over centuries by foreigners. However, we must never forget that the base of the population in al-Andalus was Muslim of a Hispano-Gothic origin. There was in any case a very diluted component of Arab origin profoundly integrated into the peninsular population. The inhabitants of al-Andalus where Spanish all the way, although of Muslim faith, as where others who professed the Jewish religion.
- Except for specialized historians, no one has taken the trouble to investigate how the Andalusi civilization was, from the other side of the Christian-western border. A country that spoke other languages, had other customs, thought, dressed and behaved differently.
- Still today when we mention the expulsion of the last Moriscos, one century after the period of the Reconquista was over, we tend to do so as if there where strange people or foreigners. But people who have lived together for centuries leave their own print which cannot be erased.
- The mystery surrounding the introduction of Islam in Spain can further be seen in new theories of modern, free thinking investigators like Ignacio Olagüe or Emilio Gonzalez Ferrín. After thorough research through the remaining historical and geological documentation of the era, these historians maintain that the Spanish Inquisition has hidden and re-written more than the modern'officialhistorians' would like to admit. Ignacio Olgagüe even sustains through research into the Church's historical archives and the above mentioned Councils of the 4th-7thCentury, that no Arabs ever'invaded'Spain! Both follow that it would actually be an Arian Christian(Monotheist)movement of defence against the Roman Catholic(Trinitarian)armed repression of the Bishops and Monarchs, who had been allied to Roman military force since the Council of Nice 400 E.C.
- There was, indeed, a diluted component of Arab origin integrated into the peninsular population since the legendary entry of Tariq Ibn Sayeed, in 711 E.C. Later, in 750 E.C., the Arabian influence was reinforced by the arrival of the last member of the Syrian Ummayad Dynasty to Spain, Abdul Rahman IbnQuraish, the first ruler to unite the peninsula under Muslim rule. It was only by 900-950 E.C. that Islam took over the entire Iberian Peninsula. In about 250 years, over 75% of the population converted to the faith. It is well known to most specialists that though the inhabitants of Al-Andalus were inherently Spanish Iberians, they were to be mostly older forms of Unitarian Christian faiths and Jews, to become a majority of Muslim over many generations. Ruled by the Ummayad Dynasty of Al-Andalus(750-1029E.C.), the coexistence of the three faiths was to be a leading exemple of true civilization and, later, the concept for Monarchic democracy, freedom of faith and spirituality, which was in fact simply the trend for human development as a whole and would create a revolution that swept through all aspects of life and knowledge, to give way to the modern world and set the foundations of most of today’s technology.
- This insight intoAndalusian history is far from wide spread. In these circumstances, and in the usual context where the civilization of al-Andalus is most commonly found it is difficult to understand and easily or evilly misunderstood.
Ruta 1. Ceutí
Ruta 1. Ceutí
Aunque con asentamientos íberos y romanos anteriores, la historia de la población de Ceutí comienza en la Edad Media, cuando era una alquería, es decir, una agrupación de viviendas sin reserva defensiva pero que, probablemente, tuviera una mezquita.Era conocida como Alquería de Zeptí, debido al origen de sus fundadores, Ceuta. En aquella época contaba con un eficaz sistema de regadío, constituido por norias y acequias que abastecían la huerta.En el siglo XIII la alquería fue donada a un caballero que erigió una construcción defensiva, y más tarde pasó a manos de otra familia. A finales del siglo es entregada a un caballero de la Orden de Santiago y, a partir de ahí, su destino será un continuo cambio de dueño entre catalanes y aragoneses, llegando hasta el siglo XVI como perteneciente a varios propietarios.El cultivo del arroz produjo diversas epidemias que no se erradicaron hasta que dicho cultivo fue suprimido en el siglo XVIII.Su condición de señorío no desaparecerá hasta mediados del siglo XIX, con las leyes de disolución de la propiedad feudal.La actividad agrícola, que había sido tradicionalmente la principal, da un giro a mediados del siglo XX cuando se instala en Ceutí la industria conservera, que estará en auge hasta los años setenta y provocará una importante expansión de la ciudad.En la actualidad, la diversificación empresarial y el turismo cultural marcan su economía.En Ceutí se encuentran dos de los museos de escultura más importantes de la región: el Museo de Antonio Campilloy el Museo de Escultura al Aire Libre de Ceutí.Sus Fiestas Patronales en Honor a San Roque y Santa María Magdalenallenan casi todo el mes de agosto.Para conocer más:Ayuntamiento de CeutíPatrimonio conservado de la época de Ibn Arabi
Ruta 1. Murcia
Ruta 1. Murcia
“En el califato de al-Mustanyid nací yo en Murcia, reinando en Al-Andalus el sultán Abdala Mohammed b. Saad Ibn Mardanis. Yo oía los viernes en la mezquita que el predicador hacía en su sermón ritual la mención del nombre de dicho califa al-Muystanyid”. Ibn Arabi: Mohadara.
La ciudad de Murcia está situada en el sureste de España.Es la capital de la región del mismo nombre, y su entorno natural está determinado por los paisajes de la huerta y del río Segura.Con unos asentamientos precedentes de íberos y romanos, la ciudad fue fundada por el emir Abderramán II el año 825 con el nombre de Madina Mursiya, convirtiéndose en la capital del reino independiente de Tudmir. Los musulmanes dejaron una marcada huella en la ciudad. Su trazado urbano y el sistema de regadío, con una importante infraestructura de acequias, son buena muestra de ello. El reino concluyó cuando fue conquistada por los almohades, una dinastía del norte de África, y su capitalidad se fijó en Sevilla.A mediados del siglo XIII el entonces infante Alfonso, conocido más tarde como El Sabio, entra en la ciudad y ésta pasa a integrarse en la corona de Castilla.
Posteriormente sufre una profunda crisis en todos los aspectos sociales, de la que comienza a salir en el siglo XVI.Su expansión y periodo más brillante tendrá lugar dos siglos más tarde, cuando se da un importante desarrollo urbano y las artes son el centro de actividad de la ciudad. El siglo XVIII es el siglo deFrancisco Salzillo, escultor barroco de fama universal.A finales del siglo XX se convierte en capital de la nuevaComunidad Autónoma de la Región de Murcia, con un gran desarrollo económico y demográfico.Su Semana Santa, en la que las obras de Salzillo son sacadas a la calle, tiene reconocida fama internacional. También es muy celebrada la semana posterior, denominadaFiestas de Primavera.Para conocer más: Ayuntamiento de Murcia© Fotografía: Ignacio BenedictoPatrimonio conservado o relacionado con la época de Ibn Arabi
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- Marruecos. - slogan??
- Marruecos Norte- 3 noches – tema pendiente
- Marruecos Imperial – 7 noches – tema pendiente
- Marruecos Exótico – 7 noches – tema pendiente
- Marruecos 4×4 Adventure – 5 noches – tema pendiente
- Marruecos Business – 7 noches – tema pendiente
- Turquía. - slogan??? (?)
- El Islam en Turquía – 7 noches – tema pendiente
- Uzbequstán. - slogan??? (? – hablar con abdul Rahim de Órgiva???)(?)
- El Islam en Uzbequistan – 7 noches – tema pendiente
- Meccah - ‘The Heart of Islam’ (? – hablar con la puebla???)
- Meccah & Medinat Visit - 5 noches – tema pendiente
- Meccah & Medinat Visit – 7 noches – tema pendiente
- Organised Umrah trip Visit – 7 noches – tema pendiente
- Organized Hajj trip – 7 noches – tema pendiente
>BCN BARCELONA OPTIONS
Free & easy program in Barcelona
Entirely free program for travellers to enjoy the city of Barcelona to your own pace & style. We offer plenty of optional activities and tour services for you to enjoy, simply ask your tour guide or travel agent for the best advice during your free time in Barcelona, in order to make this trip your unique experience.
Our ‘City Escapes’ can be treated as flexible travel modules, to be extended and connected. We invite you to travel leisurely through Barcelona, Madrid, Toledo, Cordoba, Seville, Granada and Malaga. We help you plan your flight arrival and departure locations, high speed trains, road transport and private services. In this way with our full support and advice at the booking stage, you can form your own independent tour experience. You may prefer to stay at one main city and make daytime excursions from there, just ask our staff for advice and we can elaborate a comprehensive plan for you from arrival to departure.