How true is the claim that 'The Moors brought civilization to Europe'?

by peak-7

I've recently been doing a lot of reading up on the Moors and their time in Europe (like Al-Andalus) and I often see people say this? How true is this claim (if it even is true)? Is their influence overstated or not?

BRIStoneman

Not at all true. It's mostly based on long-debunked misconceptions about the European Early Medieval period, oddly colonialist rhetoric, and pure imagination over hard evidence to the contrary. There's a string of posts on the topic here