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Article: TUNISIA'S ANDALUSIAN HERITAGE.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
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IT was back in the mid-1980s that I drove to [Qal.sup.c]at el-Andles in search of the remains of the Spanish Muslims who had been forcefully evicted from the Iberian peninsula. Stopping our auto, I asked a passerby, 'I want to speak to someone who knows the history of this village. Is there anyone?' The man looked at me inquisitively. 'Go to the town's coffee-house and ask for Sidi al-Bakr al-Andalusi. He is the historian of our village'. In a few minutes we were in the coffee-house talking to al-Andalusi, a professor of literature in the University of Tunis. I was excited as I introduced myself, then continued, 'I have come to search for traces of the Arab-Andalusians in ...