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A project to document the events, well-known figures, the government and society, and the accomplishments in literature, science and mathematics, and philosophy of the nation in the parts of the Iberian Peninsula and Septimania ruled by Muslims from the conquest in 711 to 1492. The term al-Andalus comes from "land of the Vandals."=The Conquest of al-Andalus (711 – 732)=After the fall of the Byz...
This project is about exactly what it says. The Moors conquered Spain about 700 A.D. and stayed there for over 700 years. We will talk about how Moorish culture affected the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and all their colonies and colonists. ( ).There were at least three (3) sets of Muslim/Moslem Moors: the Arabic Moors, Black or African Moors (hence the term, "blackamoor," or Black as...
Origin of the term == Saqaliba (aka Sakiliba ) was the Arabic term given to the Slavic people (not only to slaves) who in lived in the Islamic territories i.e. the Iberian peninsula, North Africa (Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt) and the other Ottoman-held regions near the Mediterranean Sea. Occasionally, non Slav individuals were also referred to as Saqaliba .==Background==* Slavic slaves ...
The term caliphate (from the Arabic خلافة or khilāfa, Turkish: Halife ) refers to the first system of government established in Islam, and represented the political unity of the Muslim Ummah (nation). In theory, it is a constitutional republic, meaning that the head of state (the Caliph) and other officials are representatives of the people who must govern according to Islamic law; which limits...