Associate Professor Brian Catlos will speak at the Multicultural Mosaic Foundation on March 13 on "Islamic Spain and Modern Western Culture, or What Bill Gates and Bob Dylan Owe to Medieval Islam."
Hard as it may be to believe, if a small Muslim army had not conquered what was then the Visigothic Kingdom of Spain in 711 AD, what we call "Western culture" would not be what it is today. Find out what Bill Gates and Bob Dylan, not to mention the rest of us, owe to the culture of al-Andalus -- medieval Islamic Spain -- and how and why this is the case.
Visit the Mosaic Foundation website for more details: http://www.mosaicfoundation.org/Invitations/BrianCatlos.htm