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But in the year 732 (one hundred years after the death of the prophet,) they were beaten in a battle between Tours and Poitiers. On that day, Charles Martel (Charles with the Hammer) the Frankish chieftain, saved Europe from a Mohammedan conquest. He drove the Moslems out of France, but they maintained themselves in Spain where Abd-ar-Rahman founded the Caliphate of Cordova, which became the greatest centre of science and art of medi?val Europe.
不過公元732年，就是穆罕默德逝世100年后，在圖爾和普瓦捷之間發生了一場歐亞大會戰，穆斯林軍隊被擊敗。在那一天，法蘭克人的首領查理·馬泰爾（綽號鐵錘查理）拯救了歐洲，使基督教世界免遭穆斯林的征服。穆斯林軍隊被趕出了法蘭西，但他們依然占據著西班牙。阿布德·艾爾·拉赫曼在此建立了科爾多瓦哈里發國，成為歐洲中世紀最偉大的科學和藝術中心。
This Moorish kingdom, so-called because the people came from Mauretania in Morocco, lasted seven centuries. It was only after the capture of Granada, the last Moslem stronghold, in the year 1492, that Columbus received the royal grant which allowed him to go upon a voyage of discovery. The Mohammedans soon regained their strength in the new conquests which they made in Asia and Africa and to-day there are as many followers of Mohammed as there are of Christ.
這個穆斯林王國統治西班牙長達7個世紀，歷史上也稱摩爾王國，因為它的統治者來自摩洛哥的毛里塔尼亞地區。一直到穆斯林在歐洲的最后一個堡壘，格拉納達于1492年陷落之后，哥倫布才得到西班牙皇室的 委任狀，授權他進行地理大發現的歷史性航行。不久之后，穆斯林又積聚力量，在亞洲和非洲征服了許多土地。到今天，穆罕默德追隨者的人數幾乎與基督徒一樣多。
