Islamic West

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The Islamic West refers to the western regions of the Islamic world, particularly North Africa and al-Andalus, known for their distinctive cultural, religious, and artistic traditions within Islamic civilization.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Islamic West canonical 2
Islamic North Africa 1
Islamic West (al-Maghrib al-Islāmī) 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (99)

Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural region
historical region
religious region
alsoKnownAs Western Islamic lands
North Africa
surface form: al-Maghrib al-Islami
contrastedWith Islamic East
Mashriq
culturalFeature Andalusian architecture
surface form: Andalusian architectural style

Andalusian music traditions
Maliki jurists of al-Andalus
surface form: Maliki legal culture

Sufi brotherhoods
courtyard gardens
distinctive Maghribi script
horseshoe arches in architecture
muqarnas decoration
zellij tilework
dominantMadhhab Maliki school
surface form: Maliki school of law
floruitCentury 10th century
11th century
12th century
13th century
14th century
15th century
8th century
9th century
geographicalPosition Atlantic façade of the Islamic world
western Mediterranean
hasPart Algeria
North Africa
surface form: Ifriqiya

Islamic Spain
surface form: Islamic Iberia

Libya
North Africa
surface form: Maghreb

Morocco
North Africa
Tunisia
Andalusia
surface form: al-Andalus
historicalLanguage Andalusian Arabic
surface form: Andalusi Arabic

Classical Arabic
Hebrew
Latin
Mozarabic language
surface form: Mozarabic
historicalProcess Arabization of Berber populations
Islamization of North Africa
Reconquista
surface form: Reconquista in Iberia

expulsion of Muslims from Iberia
intellectualTradition astronomy
jurisprudence
mathematics
medicine
mysticism
philosophy
theology
knownFor blend of Arab, Berber, and Iberian cultures
distinctive regional Islamic art
frontier interactions with Christian Europe
transmission of classical knowledge to Europe
language Arabic
Berber languages
Romance languages in al-Andalus
legacy influence on European scholasticism
influence on Iberian and Mediterranean architecture
surviving Maliki legal traditions in North Africa
majorCity Ceuta
Córdoba
Fez
Granada
Kairouan
Marrakesh
Seville
Tlemcen
Toledo
Tunis
majorDynasty Aghlabid dynasty
surface form: Aghlabids

Almohad dynasty
surface form: Almohads

Almoravid dynasty
surface form: Almoravids

Hafsid dynasty
Idrisid dynasty
surface form: Idrisids

Marinid dynasty
surface form: Marinids

Nasrid dynasty
surface form: Nasrids of Granada

Umayyad caliphs of Córdoba
surface form: Umayyads of Córdoba

Zirid dynasty
surface form: Zirids
notableInstitution Royal Alcázar of Seville
surface form: Alcázar of Seville

Alhambra
surface form: Alhambra palace complex

Great Mosque of Córdoba
Great Mosque of Kairouan
surface form: Kairouan Great Mosque

Al-Qarawiyyin University
surface form: University of al-Qarawiyyin
notableScholar Ibn Hazm
Ibn Khaldun
Averroes
surface form: Ibn Rushd

Ibn Tufayl
Ibn Arabi
surface form: Ibn al-Arabi

Al-Baqillani
surface form: al-Baqillani

al-Qurtubi
Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Musa al-Shatibi
surface form: al-Shatibi
partOf Islamic world
religion Islam
religiousMinority Christianity
surface form: Christians

Jews
timePeriod early Islamic period to early modern period

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Maghribi script geographicOrigin Islamic West
Maghrebi Maliki tradition developedIn Islamic West
this entity surface form: Islamic West (al-Maghrib al-Islāmī)
Jenne culturalSphere Islamic West
this entity surface form: Islamic West Africa
Gao Kingdom culturalInfluenceFrom Islamic West
this entity surface form: Islamic North Africa