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Spain is a Christian majority country, with Islam being a minority religion, practised mostly by immigrants from Muslim majority countries, and their descendants. Islam was a major religion on the Iberian Peninsula, beginning with the Umayyad conquest of Hispania and ending (at least overtly) with its prohibition by the modern Spanish state in ...
The Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula ( Arabic: فَتْحُ الأَنْدَلُس, romanized : fataḥ al-andalus ), also known as the Arab conquest of Spain, [ 1] by the Umayyad Caliphate occurred between approximately 711 and the 720s. The conquest resulted in the defeat of the Visigothic rulers (which themselves comprised a very ...
Al-Andalus[ a] ( Arabic: الأَنْدَلُس) was the Muslim -ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula. The term is used by modern historians for the former Islamic states in modern-day Gibraltar, Portugal, Spain, and Southern France. The name describes the different Muslim [ 1][ 2] states that controlled these territories at various times ...
Conquest (711–756) 711 – A Muslim force consisting of Arabs and Berbers of about 7,000 soldiers under general Tariq ibn Ziyad, loyal to the Umayyad Caliph Al-Walid I, enters the Iberian peninsula from North Africa. At the Battle of Guadalete, Tariq ibn Ziyad defeats Visigothic king Roderic. 712 – The Muslim governor of Northern Africa ...
The Umayyad state of Córdoba was an Arab Islamic state ruled by the Umayyad dynasty from 756 to 1031. Its territory comprised most of Iberia (known to Muslims as al-Andalus) and parts of North Africa, with its capital in Córdoba. [2] [3] [4] From 756 it was ruled as Emirate of Córdoba until Abd al-Rahman III adopted the title of caliph in ...
The early Muslim conquests or early Islamic conquests ( Arabic: الْفُتُوحَاتُ الإسْلَامِيَّة, romanized : al-Futūḥāt al-ʾIslāmiyya ), [ 3] also known as the Arab conquests, [ 4] were initiated in the 7th century by Muhammad, the founder of Islam. He established a new unified polity in Arabia (known today as the ...
The Alhambra ( / ælˈhæmbrə /, Spanish: [aˈlambɾa]; Arabic: الْحَمْرَاء, romanized : al-ḥamrāʼ ) is a palace and fortress complex located in Granada, Andalusia, Spain. It is one of the most famous monuments of Islamic architecture and one of the best-preserved palaces of the historic Islamic world, in addition to containing ...
Governor of Tangier. Governor of Al-Andalus. Ṭāriq ibn Ziyād ( Arabic: طارق بن زياد ), also known simply as Tarik in English, was an Umayyad commander who initiated the Muslim conquest of Visigothic Hispania (present-day Spain and Portugal) in 711–718 AD.