><andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>the Moorish Enlightenment, exterminated by the Inquisition and the
>Expulsion under their Most Catholic Majesties Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain,
In a book called Shards of Love, Maria Rosa Menocal engagingly fleshes out the argument that the day Columbus set sail on his first voyage to the New World, August 2, 1492, was the very same day the edict expelling Jews from Spain went into effect: