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| | Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | A spirit of freedom allowed Jews, Christians, and Muslim to work side by side." (by Francis Ghiles, "What is Wrong With Muslim Science", Nature, 24 March 1983.) According to some historians, the Golden Age ended in 1090 by the invasion of Almoravides, a puritan Muslim sect from Morocco. |
 | | Even under the Almoravides, some Jews prospered (although far more so under Ali III than under his father Yusef I bin Tashfin). |
 | | Among those who held the title of "vizier" or "nasi" in Almoravide times were the poet and physician Abu Ayyub Solomon ibn al-Mu'allam, Abraham ibn Meïr ibn Kamnial, Abu Isaac ibn Muhajar, and Solomon ibn Farusal (although Solomon was murdered May 2, 1108). |
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