This man christian and muslim won great honor in city A. City A hosts now a wealth of knowledge from city B. In city B another man studied and he was the leader of the shortest goverment in the history of his country; this second man's country did not exist before Amadeus was made king of Spain.

What is the name of This man?


You will needle google, and a little bit of imagination. A correct answer should cover all the intermediate steps.
Good luck.

Er... Lawrence of Arabia?

Er...no. You have to find it not guess it.And IIRC Laurence was not very much a man of faith...

Was he John/James (?) Scot, translator at the library in Cordoba? He was a Scotsman who turned muslim (well he became a Mozarab).

nope. Why don't you check when Amadeus was pronounced king of Spain and take it from there?

Was he John/James (?) Scot, translator at the library in Cordoba? He was a Scotsman who turned muslim (well he became a Mozarab).

OT:
that would be Michael Scot, and he was associated with the Toledo Escola de Traduccion. Toledo became the European center for translation of scientific texts from Arabic to Latin, mainly in the 1200s. Toledo was famed as a center of learning and viewed suspicially as a center of astrology by the Christians. Incidentally, Michael was also an astrologer. The glory days of Cordoba as a city and the Cordoba Caliphate predate this period.

sorry, it's a subject from the period of history I'm interested in..... :cool:

OT:
that would be Michael Scot, and he was associated with the Toledo Escola de Traduccion. Toledo became the European center for translation of scientific texts from Arabic to Latin, mainly in the 1200s. Toledo was famed as a center of learning and viewed suspicially as a center of astrology by the Christians. Incidentally, Michael was also an astrologer. The glory days of Cordoba as a city and the Cordoba Caliphate predate this period.

sorry, it's a subject from the period of history I'm interested in..... :cool:OT: Doh!! I knew I should have looked it up before slapping it down on the thread. Thanks for the clarifications and be sure to PM me with some links about that period. I'm getting more and more interested these days.

OnT: Err I have real life distractions, so I'll have to leave it to you guys. If you're still acting really silly about it, I might come back and put you all out of your misery :p

Amadeus of Savoy was made king of Spain in 1870. So we need a country that appeared later than that.

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Francisco Pi y Margall was the leader of one of Spain's early republican experiments, can't remember which one, although I believe it was the shortest-lived Spanish government.

It's either that or some provisional authority set up during the Spanish civil war by some faction that quickly lost its place. Unfortunately, I know almost nothing about 20th century Spain.

Edit: It was the First Spanish Republic of 1873: which directly followed Amadeus in the line of succession.