The widespread belief that Spain and Morocco are joined through their Andalusi past--from a time when Christians, Muslims, and Jews "coexisted" in medieval Iberia--actually arose in the 1800s, as Spain's justification for colonizing Morocco. Eric Calderwood shows how a piece of Spanish propaganda gradually became a tenet of Moroccan nationalism.
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The widespread belief that Spain and Morocco are joined through their Andalusi past--from a time when Christians, Muslims, and Jews "coexisted" in medieval Iberia--actually arose in the 1800s, as Spain's justification for colonizing Morocco. Eric Calderwood shows how a piece of Spanish propaganda gradually became a tenet of Moroccan nationalism.
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