What: Exhibit: Muslim Spain: Conquest, Expulsion, Legacy, 711-2009
When: Through Friday, October 30, 2009
Where: Elmer L. Andersen Library Exhibit Gallery
Free and open to the public.

The conquest of the Iberian peninsula by Arab Muslims altered the cultural trajectory of Spain and separated from its European neighbors for more than 700 years. Yet, when their Catholic majesties Ferdinand and Isabella completed the Christian reconquest of the peninsula in 1492, the story of the Muslims in Spain had several chapters still to be written. This exhibition acknowledges 2009 as the 400th anniversary of the expulsion of the Moriscos (Muslim converts to Catholicism) from all Spanish lands and celebrates the enduring cultural legacy of al-Andalus.