Islam in Spain - Wikipedia
WEBIn 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 …
Al-Andalus - Wikipedia
WEBFollowing the Muslim conquest of Spain, al-Andalus, then at its greatest extent, was divided into five administrative units, corresponding roughly to: modern Andalusia; Castile and León; Navarre, Aragon, and Catalonia; Portugal and Galicia; and the Languedoc-Roussillon area of Occitania.
Spain - Muslim Rule, Reconquista, Culture | Britannica
WEB3 days ago · 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.
Al-Andalus | Facts, History, & Maps | Britannica
WEBAl-Andalus, Muslim kingdom that occupied much of the Iberian Peninsula from 711 CE until the collapse of the Spanish Umayyad dynasty in the early 11th century. The Arabic name Al-Andalus likely refers to the Vandals who …
BBC - Religions - Islam: Muslim Spain (711-1492)
WEBSep 4, 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...
Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula - Wikipedia
WEBThe 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.
Spain - Muslim, Architecture, Cuisine | Britannica
WEB3 days ago · Spain - Muslim, Architecture, Cuisine: Arab civilization in the peninsula reached its zenith when the political power of the Arabs began to decline. Immediately following the Muslim conquest in the 8th century, there were no traces of a cultural level higher than that attained by the Mozarabs who lived among the Arab conquerors.
‘These are the keys of this paradise’: how 700 years of Muslim rule …
WEBMar 6, 2018 · In that last decade of Muslim rule in Spain from 1482-92, sultan Boabdil – a raw youth of 20 who had barely left the confines of the Alhambra palace and had no experience of the world...
Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain
WEBThis volume, which accompanies a major exhibition presented at the Alhambra in Granada and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is devoted to the little-known artistic legacy of Islamic Spain. From 711 to 1492 al-Andalus was the occidental frontier of Islam.
Al-Andalus: The Former Islamic States in Spain and Portugal
WEBJan 9, 2023 · The Muslim states of Al-Andalus will forever be one of the most intriguing civilizations of the Middle Ages. A center of education and science, as well as relative tolerance and openness, it certainly stood out from other European societies at the time.