As the name indicates, the musical and geographical origins of this style of music go back to the land of Al-Andalus, a land which once covered a large part of the Iberian peninsula, and nurtured the blossoming and culmination of the civilization known as the Golden Age (of Arabs, Jews, and Christians), which flourished from the Middle Ages to the fall of Granada in 1492.
Arab-Andalusian music, which is of Arab origin and began to develop in the ninth century, draws its inspiration from both East and West.


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