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In 2024 according to the Islamic Commission of Spain, there are 2.5 million Muslims in Spain, which is about 5.32 percent of the population of 47 million Spaniards. The number of converts, as per the commission, has increased to an estimated 10 times in the past three decades.
7 lis 2024 · Muslim Spain, known historically as Al-Andalus (الاندلس), refers to the territories of the Iberian Peninsula under Islamic rule from the early 8th century until the fall of Granada in 1492. The Muslim conquest began in 711 CE when Tariq ibn Ziyad led an army across the Strait of Gibraltar and defeated the Visigothic kingdom of Spain.
4 wrz 2009 · Islamic Spain was a multi-cultural mix of Muslims, Christians and Jews. It brought a degree of civilisation to Europe that matched the heights of the Roman Empire and the Italian...
4 dni temu · A major Amazigh uprising against the Arabs in North Africa had powerful repercussions in Muslim Spain; it caused the depopulation of the northwestern peninsula, occupied at that time mainly by Imazighen, and brought the Syrian army of Balj to Al-Andalus, which introduced a new motive for discord.
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.
This comprehensive introduction to the history of Islamic Spain takes thereader through the events, people and movements from 711 to 1492.
1 dzień temu · The first extant chronicles of Muslim Spain, such as the Taʾrīkh iftitāḥ al-Andalus (“History of the Conquest of Spain”) by Ibn al-Qūṭiyyah, date back to the 10th century.
