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The most famous example of this Islamic civilization that is recognised in the Western world is that of Islamic Spain. Generally, Western historians acknowledge that at its peak, it represented a unique civilisation in which Muslims, Christians and Jews were able to live together with religious and cultural tolerance. The society made substantial contributions to the arts, medicine, and sciences, and re-introduced the works of the Greeks back into European thought and indirectly helped to start the western renaissance. At its height, its capital Cordoba, had some two hundred thousand homes, six hundred mosques, nine hundred public baths, fifty hospitals, street lighting and paved streets. Libraries and research institutions flourished in Muslim Spain while the rest of Europe remained largely illiterate. The Muslims welcomed the contribution of the Jews and the Christians who lived in this state.
When the Muslims were defeated in Spain, and this part of the Islamic civilisation was destroyed, both the Jews and Muslims were told by the edict of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain during the Spanish Inquisition to either convert to Christianity, leave or be killed. It was the then Islamic Ottoman state that offered refuge to the Jews of Spain. The leader of the state Sultan Bayazid II ordered the governors of the provinces of the Ottoman Empire 'not to refuse the Jews entry or cause them difficulties, but to receive them cordially.' The Sultan also said that: 'the Catholic monarch Ferdinand was wrongly considered as wise, since he impoverished Spain by the expulsion of the Jews, and enriched Turkey.'
Immigration bring it on.
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