Orgiva - The story of Islam in the Land of Spain is a time of grandeur hundreds of years ago. At that time, Islam grew with the values of world culture and civilization.Philosophers and scientists alternated, popping up life in the Land of Spain. Islam is not only a religion, but has become a reference of life as well as science.
But in 1942, the religion of rahmatan lil alamin began to fade its influence. And from this point Islam became a minority in the earth of Andalusia.
Alpujarras is the last Muslim stronghold in the Land of Andalusia. Small, elegant villages that once made great history in the fifteenth century of the Muslim world as the center of the silkworm industry.
Though lost hundreds of years, the glory of Islam as if it never disappeared from the earth Alpujarras.
Together with Yassin, a young Spanish Muslim, the Islamic Jazirah team will trace the extent to which Islam once decorated and built a great civilization here.
Pampaneira is one of the villages located in the Alpujarras region. Precisely in the valley Poqueira, which is the southern side of the Sierra Nevada mountains. This small village has a population of about 300 people, with a majority of the non-Muslim population.
Known as a white village, the area was built by the Ethnic Moors of African Muslim, in the 8th century AD.
In the Alpujarras region, the Muslim community not only builds residential areas, but also builds a complete living system, in a remarkable way of working. Such as cultivation systems, irrigation, defense techniques and protection from enemies.
The architecture of every building in Pampaneira is still its original form. Including the mosque which is now a church, in the area of Plaza De La Iglesia.
Unfortunately, all that remains is the minaret (minaret) and a little former entrance that characterizes mosque buildings from the Moors era.
Lavadero or laundry house is one of the clearest proofs of how Muslims at Alpujarras have thought of every detail of the day-to-day activities. Even for the work of women. Although Lavadero looks simple, but this is a very remarkable innovation.
Orgiva is an activity center of 50 villages in the Alpujarras region. The city, 49 km from Granada, depicts the colors of local communities, hippies and Muslims.
Here, Muslims can live in peace with local people and other religions. This time the Islamic Jazeera team was accompanied by Hamidah and Syamsudin, the original Muslim Orgiva.
Syamsudin shared the story that his parents were one of the first Muslim generations in Spain. While Hamidah is a native woman of Orgiva. He decided to become a Muslim since 15 years ago.
Before that, he was an active lawyer in this city. After marriage and became a Muslim, she decided to become a housewife. A job he thinks is the most glorious in the world.
A real peace is here. How Hamidah and his son, Syamsudin without awkward greet each other with other citizens, both Muslims and non-Muslims.
The Jazirah Islam team also visited the making of "jarapa" or the traditional carpet of Alpujarras. Almost every house in this village has at least one loom to work on jarapa crafts.
In the history of Islam in the Andalusian lands, looms were one of the most important industrial tools of the time. Not only used to produce jarapa rugs, but at that time more preferred for textile and silk weaving process.
Luckily the Jazirah Islam team still get a chance to see the legacy of the Muslim nation in the form of beautiful handicrafts, which have been hundreds of years old.
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