The Story of the Moors in Spain traces Islamic Iberia from the 711 landing to Granada's fall in 1492. In lucid Victorian prose warmed by romantic color, Lane-Poole synthesizes Arabic chronicles and antiquarian learning to chart Córdoba's caliphate, the taifa age, Almoravid-Almohad reform, and Nasrid decline. He attends to the Great Mosque and the Alhambra, sciences and irrigation, and the fraught ideal of convivencia, shaping a cultural elegy and indictment of intolerance. A British Orientalist and numismatist, Lane-Poole worked in the British Museum's Department of Coins and Medals and later held the Arabic chair at Trinity College, Dublin. Nephew of Edward William Lane, he fused philology with material culture, drawing on al-Maqqari (via Gayangos), Dozy, and epigraphic and monetary evidence. His wider oeuvre, including Saladin, informed a sympathetic yet admonitory portrait of al-Andalus. Recommended to readers of Iberian, Islamic, and Mediterranean history, this classic remains a graceful portal to al-Andalus. Use it alongside recent scholarship to temper its Orientalist era and romantic melancholy; its synthesis, moral urgency, and eye for monuments still richly reward. Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable-distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.