Mr. Scott is authority for the statement that as the empire was reared by arms alone ... during this period of intellectual stagnation the Moorish Princes of Spain and Sicily, alone among the ...

WELCOME, Md. — The complaints about the property on Fire Tower Road were urgent but not too far out of the ordinary in this rural stretch of Southern Maryland: earsplitting gunfire, endangered ...

The interior of Cordoba's Mezquita, a former mosque, holds a forest of columns topped by red-and-white arches. (Bob Sessions) The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread.

Shakespeare's play Othello features a Moorish general in the Venetian army. The 19th-century African-American actor Ira Aldridge, depicted here in the title role, was the first black man to appear ...

Two Moorish Americans — who claim to be sovereign citizens of a fictitious North African empire — were scheduled to make their first appearance in front of Judge Monise Brown for several gun ...

After the collapse of the Roman Empire multitudes of white warring tribes from the Caucus were pushed into Western Europe by the invading Huns. The Moors invaded Spanish shores in 711 AD and ...

While the Moors may have been vanquished centuries ago, they still loom large in the collective imagination: Getting lost in a web of alleys in the seaside village of Olhão (Al-Hain), I stumble ...

Once the capital of the Moorish Empire during the ‘Islamic Golden Age’ in the 10th century, the city flourished under the rule as a centre of art, science, and philosophy, becoming one the ...