Al-Andalus: a Short Personal Reflection
December 1491. The last days was approaching. The siege had caused famine and misery. Abu Abdullah or Boabdil had to decide an unthinkable decision that will change the stream of history. He felt every breath he took and every move he made. [1] At the Hill of Martyr, accompanied by small numbers of his knights, he came to see Ferdinand and Isabella for the royal procession. He gave Ferdinand the last key of the Muslim palace on Iberian Peninsula. By that moment, the Muslim defeat was completed; the reconquesta was accomplished; the Moors was expelled. Before the last Sultan left the city, he turned his back and saw his lost kingdom for the last time before he crossed over to Africa and live as ordinary people. His mother said a memorial famous sentence for the coward Caliph: “You may well weep like a woman, for what you could not defend like a man” [2] Tariq Ali, a British-Pakistani historian and novelist, eloquently describes the tragic moment of the last days of Muslim Spain...