- al-Andalus
- her Arabic name for the whole Iberian peninsula
- the conquest of Iberia
- Islam's entry into Iberia in the year 711
- Cordoba
- the western caliphate's city at her flourishing era's height
- the taifa kingdoms
- the little states that rose after the united caliphate's fall
- the Almoravids
- the dynasty that gathered the taifa kingdoms under one banner
- the Almohads
- the dynasty that came ruling al-Andalus after the Almoravids
- Granada
- the last remaining kingdom in the land of al-Andalus
- Tariq
- the leader who conquered her in 711 across the strait
- Gibraltar
- the rock named after him until this very day
- coexistence
- the faiths' living together through her long centuries
- the libraries
- the million-book stores of her flourishing golden era
- eight centuries
- Islam's duration in her — eight whole centuries of time
