[source: Golden Age of the Moor, p. 

MOORISH WOMEN WERE WELL-EDUCATED AND CONTRIBUTED TO EDUCATION, LAW, MEDICINE, 
WRITING, THE ARTS, AND LIBRARY SCIENCES
It should be pointed out that, at least during this era of Islamic Spain, 
girls as well as boys went to school, and numerous Moorish women became 
prominent in the literary and artistic fields. Other Moorish women were 
involved in education, law, medicine, and library science.
[source: Golden Age of the Moor, p. 57]

MUSLIM CITY OF CORDOVA, IN MOORISH SPAIN, 10TH CENTURY
The Spanish city of Cordova, in the tenth century, was very much like a modern 
city. Its streets were well paved and there were raised sidewalks for 
pedestrians. At night, one could walk for ten miles by the light of lamps 
flanked by an uninterrupted extent of buildings. This was hundreds of years 
before there was a paved street in Paris, France, or a street light in London, 
England. The population of Cordova was over a million. There were 200,000 homes, 
800 public schools, and many colleges and universities. Cordova possessed 10,000 
palaces of the wealthy, besides many royal palaces, surrounded by beautiful 
gardens. There were even 5,000 mills in Cordova at a time when there was not 
even one in the rest of Europe. There were also 900 public baths, besides a 
large number of private ones, at a time when the rest of Europe considered 
bathing as extremely sinful, and to be avoided as much as possible.
[source: Golden Age of the Moor, p. 86]

IN ISLAM, EDUCATION WAS UNIVERSAL, NEARLY A RIGHT, WHEREAS IN CHRISTIAN EUROPE, 99% ILLITERACY
Education was universal in Moorish Spain, being given to the most humble, while 
in Christian Europe ninety-nine percent of the people were illiterate, and even 
kings could neither read nor write. You had Moorish women who were doctors and 
lawyers and professors.
[source: Golden Age of the Moor, pp. 86-87]

MUSLIM-EDUCATED JEWS ESTABLISHED OXFORD UNIVERSITY IN ENGLAND
Jewish scholars studied under the Moors, and then went to England and set up a 
scientific school at what later came to be Oxford University. The Moors 
furnished the knowledge and the Jews collected it.
[source: Golden Age of the Moor, p. 86-87]

EXPULSION OF MOORS FROM SPAIN SET BACK PROGRESS OF MANKIND
The expulsion of the Moors from Andalusia was a serious setback to modern civilization.
[source: Golden Age of the Moor, p. 88]

ROMAN INVADERS APPLIED GREEK WORD FOR DARK TO AFRICANS, WHEN THEY INVADED THEM
Although the term Moor has been put to diverse use, its roots are still 
traceable. Circa 46 BC, the Roman army entered West Africa where they 
encountered black Africans which they called "Maures" from the Greek adjective 
mauros, meaning dark or black.
[source: Golden Age of the Moor, p. 151]

LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA DESTROYED IN 389 CE BY CHRISTIAN EMPEROR THEODOSIUS
The great library of Alexandria, accidentally damaged by Julius Caesar and 
restored by Mark Antony, was intentionally destroyed by a Christian mob on 
orders of the Christian emperor Theodosius in AD 389.
[source: Golden Age of the Moor, p. 164]

MOORS TRANSLATED EUCLID, GALEN, PLATO, ARISTOTLE, AND HINDU WRITINGS INTO ARABIC
In spite of this, the Moors set out to quench their insatiable thirst for 
knowledge by "translating into Arabic all they could lay their hands on of 
ancient Greek and Sanskrit material, ransacking monastaries for rare copies of 
Euclid, Galen, Plato, Aristotle and Hindu sages."
[source: Golden Age of the Moor, p. 164]

ROMAN EMPEROR JUSTINIAN TERRORIZED GREEK SCHOLARS, WHO FLED TO PERSIA
Jose M. Millas Vallicrosa is a Spanish historian...Vallicrosa makes the point 
that in 529 AD there was a migration of Greek scholars to Persia. These 
individuals were fleeing the tyranny of the Emperor Justinian, who had closed 
the academy at Athens and begun persecuting the Greek teachers. Persian rulers 
welcomed these learned refugees and Baghdad soon became the new center for the 
sciences as these scholarly refugees carried their ancient wisdom into Persian 
society. Chejne says that the tradition of supporting the sciences continued in 
Persia.
[source: Golden Age of the Moor, p. 207]

ROMANS SHUT DOWN GREEK PHILOSOPHY SCHOOLS IN 529 AD
James also elaborates upon what Vallicrosa had alluded to earlier concerning the 
Byzantine Emperor Justinian. James states that both the edicts of Theodosius in 
the fourth century and later of Justinian (529), closed down the temples of the 
"Egyptian Mysteries" as well as the philosophical schools of Greece. The result 
was an intellectual darkness which descended over civilized Christian Europe and 
the entire Graeco-Roman world. It lasted for nearly seven centuries and the 
Greeks were afforded no open opportunity to improve upon the ancient Egyptian 
knowledge.
[source: Golden Age of the Moor, p. 209]

MUHAMMAD'S FIRST CONVERT TO ISLAM WAS BILAL, AN AFRICAN
It is also a fact that Mohammed's first convert was Bilal, an Ethiopian. J.A. 
Rogers calls Bilal, Mohammed's "closest and most honored friend until his death,
" and goes on to say that most of the earliest disciples were Africans, 
including another convert, Zayd bin Harith, the Prophet's adopted son and one of 
his greatest generals.
[source: Golden Age of the Moor, p. 360]

MUHAMMAD ADOPTED AN AFRICAN AS A SON, WHO BECAME A GREAT MUSLIM GENERAL
It is also a fact that Mohammed's first convert was Bilal, an Ethiopian. J.A. 
Rogers calls Bilal, Mohammed's "closest and most honored friend until his death,
" and goes on to say that most of the earliest disciples were Africans, 
including another convert, Zayd bin Harith, the Prophet's adopted son and one of 
his greatest generals.
[source: Golden Age of the Moor, p. 360]