[Peisistratus]

"the philosophers of al-Andalus were cave-dwelling barbarians."

Ah, I see you've bought into the mythical "great al-Andalus" nonsense.

[Valin]

The fact is for a period of time al-Andalus was a major center of learning. That's not to say it was a garden of eden, it wasn't When the university of Paris had a library of 75(?) books the library in Granada had 12,000. If you were studying medicine you didn't go to Londaon you went to al-Andalus.