Islam, one of the three major religions at the time, made the most rapid spread during the Post-Classical Age. In Muslim society, cities and other urban areas quickly developed and played important economic, religious, and cultural roles.
One of the major roles that muslim cities and urban areas is the cultural role. During the Post-classical Age, Al-Hijari, an Iberian Muslim of Arab origin, boasted that Cordoba became a superior region after the Arab conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. He stated that the under the Umayyads, Cordoba became the center of seekers of science and poetry and other intellectuals.…