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Muslim Culture's Gender Roles and Religion's Influence

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the region of Spain. Bibliography lists six sources. BBMuslim THE "CROSS AND THE CRESCENT" IN NORTH AFRICA AND SPAIN  Research compiled by  B. Bryan Babcock August 2001 -- properly Introduction This paper examines the conflict between Christianity and Islam  during the Muslim conquests of North Africa and Spain. Examined is North Africas resistance and eventual concession to Islam as well as the Muslim conquest in 711AD that resulted  in the spread of Islamic religion and culture to the region of Spain. What was Spain and North Africa like before the Muslims?  Spain, like Britain, Gaul, South Germany, Italy and North Africa, had been civilized by the Romans. According to McCabe, "Those uninspired, materialistic, sensual, immoral Romans had  made of its primitive inhabitants a happy cultured folk immeasurably higher than any section of Christendom was a thousand years later. You (can) still tread their roads and cross their  bridges in Spain." After the fall of Rome, Spain was dominated by the Teutonic tribes, the Vandals, and the Visigoths in succession. The Visigoths adopted the ways of  the Christian church and within two centuries were as corrupt as the rest of the Church in Europe, with the clergy owning great wealth, and large amounts of land.  In the early years of the seventh century, the Arabs overran the old civilizations of Persia and Egypt. It did not take them