New Straits Times
06-26-2005
Golden age of learning
Edition: New Sunday Times

Malaysia is promoting Islam Hadhari as a way of life, a practical

lifestyle which empowers the people through knowledge to meet the
challenges facing them. In this second part of a six-part series,

DZULKIFLI ABDUL RAZAK writes about the great centre of learning in the

Iberian peninsula.

A PRINCE of the Umaiyad dynasty, Abd al-Rahman b Mwiyah b (Caliph)

Hisham (756-788), was forced to flee Damascus when the Abbasids took

control of the Muslim world in 750.

Abd al-Rahman fled to Iberia (modern Spain) and ...

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