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https://twistislamophobia.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/mito_alandalus-1.jpg828549In the last years, several have been published that, without relying in scientific and objective research studies, atack Islam and the Muslim population, through generalizations that reflect the prejudices, fears and discriminatory tendencies existing in society. This entry intends to warn against that kind of studies, which rely in the reputation granted by the authors’ academic position and in partial research proceses to generate clearly islamophobic analysis. Such is the case of works such as “The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise”, by Darío Fernández-Morera, “Al-ándalus contra España: la forja de un mito” (Al-Andalus against Spain: the forge of a myth), de Serafín Fajul, and “Al-Ándalus y la Cruz” (Al-Andalus and the Cross), by Rafael Sánchez Saus. Regarding other current topics, we can highlight “What’s wrong with Muslims?” (by Satoshi Kanazawa) and “Going Muslim” (by Tunku Varadajan), both analyzed by Abderrahman El-Sayed in his study “Is your Professor an Islamophobe?”. The first three tackle what they consider to be an “idealized” period of history, rejecting the tolerance and cohabitation that characterized it. While mythicizing, on their side, the Visigoth period, they reject the philosophical contributions made to Europe by the Arabs and emphasize the social and interreligious conflicts existing during the Al-Andalus period, over the periods of peaceful and productive ...