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Moors are not a single, distinct or self-defined people. [2] The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica observed that the term had "no real ethnological value." [3] Europeans of the Middle Ages and the early modern period variously applied the name to Arabs, Berbers, and Muslim Europeans. [4]
The Moorish sovereign movement, sometimes called the indigenous sovereign movement or the Rise of the Moors, is a small sub-group of sovereign that mainly holds to the teachings of the Moorish Science Temple of America, in that African Americans are descendants of the Moabites and thus are "Moorish" by nationality, and Islamic by faith.
Mauretanian cavalry under Lusius Quietus fighting in the Dacian Wars, from the Column of Trajan. Mauri (from which derives the English term "Moors") was the Latin designation for the Berber population of Mauretania, located in the west side of North Africa on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, Mauretania Tingitana and Mauretania Caesariensis, in present-day Morocco and northwestern Algeria.
Demographic and cultural changes have decreased the attraction of young people to the Moorish Science Temple. Only about 200 members attended a convention in 2007, rather than the thousands of the past. In the early 2000s, the temples in Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., had about 200 members each, and many were older people ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 May 2024. Group associated with the Moorish Science Temple of America Washitaw Nation at the Mardi Gras Indians Super Sunday, New Orleans, 2014 The Washitaw Nation (Washitaw de Dugdahmoundyah) is an African-American group associated with the Moorish Science Temple of America who claim to be a ...
Moorish Orthodox Church of America, a syncretic, non-exclusive, and religious anarchist movement; Moorish Science Temple of America, an African-American Muslim religious group; Mouros da Terra, native or half-native coastal Muslims in south India such as Mappila (Mouros Malabares/Moors Mopulars) Sri Lankan Moor, a minority Muslim group in Sri Lanka
The Moorish Proselytes of Archbishop Ximenes, Granada, 1500 by Edwin Long (1829–1891) The Emirate of Granada was the last Muslim kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula, which surrendered in 1492 to the Catholic forces after a decade-long campaign.
The term "Moorish" or "neo-Moorish" sometimes also covered an appropriation of motifs from a wider range of Islamic architecture. [ 19 ] [ 89 ] This style was a recurring choice for Jewish synagogue architecture of the era, where it was seen as an appropriate way to mark Judaism's non-European origins.