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**noingenah** · 11-16-2011, 08:51 AM

First, and prior to the muslim arrival, were those form Mauretania Tingitana (mauri=moor) who invaded Spain during the Roman Empire times.

By 711 they "invaded" Spain again, but now as muslims (they were called by a visigothic ruler to fight against the king, Rodrigo). They realized the country was driven by the anarchy and decided to send more troops to establish a permanent control. Many hispanorromans accepted the new rulers as a better option than the goths, some of them embracing the new faith and others keeping their beliefs.

A ruling class came from the Near East -mainly Syria- and built up the "Caliphate of Cordoba" when the Ummayyad were subsituted by the Abbasidas in the muslim world (the spanish caliphas were Ummayyad)

But there were more invasions from north Africa; those of Almoravides, Almohades and Benimerines. They occuped muslim Spain driven by a fanatic interpretation of Islam wich was rejected by both muslim and christian spaniards.

Finaly, the term moor was used to designate any muslim without taking into account their origin or ethnicity. In Spain, the majority of muslims were of indigenous stock (more or less mixed with the above quoted, who were a minority when compared to hispanorromans)

11-16-2011, 08:51 AM	#8
noingenah Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 474 Senior Member	First, and prior to the muslim arrival, were those form Mauretania Tingitana (mauri=moor) who invaded Spain during the Roman Empire times. By 711 they "invaded" Spain again, but now as muslims (they were called by a visigothic ruler to fight against the king, Rodrigo). They realized the country was driven by the anarchy and decided to send more troops to establish a permanent control. Many hispanorromans accepted the new rulers as a better option than the goths, some of them embracing the new faith and others keeping their beliefs. A ruling class came from the Near East -mainly Syria- and built up the "Caliphate of Cordoba" when the Ummayyad were subsituted by the Abbasidas in the muslim world (the spanish caliphas were Ummayyad) But there were more invasions from north Africa; those of Almoravides, Almohades and Benimerines. They occuped muslim Spain driven by a fanatic interpretation of Islam wich was rejected by both muslim and christian spaniards. Finaly, the term moor was used to designate any muslim without taking into account their origin or ethnicity. In Spain, the majority of muslims were of indigenous stock (more or less mixed with the above quoted, who were a minority when compared to hispanorromans)
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