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• Title: From Azulejos to Zaguanes: The Islamic Legacy in the Built Environment of Hispano-America.
• Author : Journal of the Southwest
• Release Date : January 22, 2003
• Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 235 KB

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They lack our faith, but we lack their works.--Cardinal Ximenez de Cisneros Prior to the Spanish colonization of the Americas, beginning at the end of the fifteenth century, Spain was completing the final chapters of the Reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula after eight centuries of Islamic rule and cultural dominance. Although often ignored in the histories of the Spanish colonial period, people of Muslim descent traveled to Hispano-America (1) during its initial colonization. Evidence of this cultural assimilation can be seen in the profound legacy of Islamic architectural characteristics in the Hispano-American built environment that is still evident today. This paper attempts to recognize this Islamic legacy through an analysis of three levels of the Hispano-American built environment: ornamentation, architectural form, and open space.

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