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Background: Spain just before the POD BACKGROUND: Spain just before the POD Translated from G. Icarie, Falcons sans nids. Les Omeyyades au 11e siècle en Espagne. Paris: Malligard, 1952. "The Cordoba Caliphate did not end with its ruling family. Hisham III's exile into Andalusi folklore left a...

Historically, Western Europe did have a lot of unarmed martial arts. They had two problems: AFAICT, they were overwhelmingly the unarmed component of an armed style. Those armed styles generally abandoned them when guns became more efficient ways of killing people than melee. For Western...

Right you are. (If Andalusis wanted heterodoxy, they'd have adopted their own domestic Zahiriyya. You'd sense a great disturbance in the TL, as if millions of ordinary language philosophers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.) Oh, don't worry; they're going to stick around...

Ixbiliada the history of Seville, 1070-1290 FOREWORD excerpted from Izanagi Aoi, Moorish History: A Very Poor Introduction. Honolulu: Daiwakoku Press, 1988. Far out in one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way Galaxy lies an utterly representative G-series star. Orbiting this, at a distance of...

On September 1, 1923, Nissho Inoue dies in the Kanto Earthquake. As a result, he never gets around to forming the League of Blood, derailing the League of Blood Incident entirely and possibly the assassination of Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi. Which means that Japan enters the historic...

There's always al-Waqwaq. It's somewhere east of China, there's lots of gold and ebony, and they probably don't have the linguists to tell them that ibn Kurdadhbih was talking about Japan.