Muslim invasion on Spain?

Question

Do leaders of spains Muslim invasion had some religious connection? If yes what was reason for invasion? And why they ruled Spain for long time? Or invasion was done by some king and his commanders without religious consideration?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

The invasion of spain was the furthest extent that Islam could conquer at the time. It is Islamic religious doctrine that the whole world be Islamic...therefore it was done under the umbrella of spreading islam to Spain and destroying the native religious beliefs along the way.

Answer 3

contained in the seventeenth and 18th century, even as the Muslims invaded Spain, they were widely used because the Ottoman Empire, that's now Turkey. Then, they were starting to be and it wasn't non secular, yet only for territory. The Ottoman Empire began from Turkey and moved up the Balkan Penninsula to Spain. Now, as they moved up, they did make the people convert to Islam. It develop right into a conquering aspect, that's basically what got here about till now. so that they could tell them to remodel, and in the journey that they did not, they could take their firstborn and deliver them off to the Turkish military to wrestle for the king, to them widely used as a suleyman. The Ottoman Empire did not carry Spain for the form of lengthy time period, notwithstanding they did rule for a lengthy time period. on the authentic, they began to burn up. initially, the Ottoman Empire develop into depending contained in the thirteenth century through a king referred to as Osman a million. They formed even as they destroyed the Byzantine Empire, which ruled till now them. wish this helps. : )

Answer 4

In the process of expansion of Islam, they reached the atlantic coast in north Africa. At that moment, the kingdom of the Visigotics (one of the Germanic Tribes who invaded South Europe) in Spain, who had ruled Iberia since the fall of the Roman Empire, was in completely disorder, with continuos civil wars in order to get the power. In this period, muslims are called by some visigotic chiefs in order to help them to get the power. Muslims took notice of how weak were that kingdom and use the invitation to make Spain one part of their empire, which at that moment extended from the atlantic ocean up to the indic ocean.

The conquer was carried up with around 20.000 men, and making alliances with cristians chiefs they controlled the country in less than 7 years, with the exception of the north, in which an small and weak cristian kindogm survived. After the conquest of Spain they tried to go on with france, but there were a more united germanic kingdom, and the francs defeated them in Poitiers, near Paris. All this happende between 711-726 a.c.

The conqueror of Spain is named Tariq, general of the Damascus Califa. Still you find the name of Gibraltar, which in arabic means the mountain of Tariq.

After the invasion, and during VIII and IX centuries happend three significant things:
a) The consolidation of a cristian power in the north, strong enough to defend their independency, but weak to counter atack.
b)The separation of Spain from the rest of the muslim world. In the IX century the Dinasty which was governing the muslim world was spelled from power, the Omeyas, and all the family of the Califa was assesinated, but one nephew of the Califa, who run away from damascus, and arrived to Spain, where he was letimated as the true Califa. In this moment Spain splited from the rest of the muslim world, and flourished as the center of culture, arts and science of Europe.
c)Francs, the germans who ruled France, invaded the north east of Spain, and founded in Barcelona a Cristian county in order to defend their borders of the menace of the Califa of Cordoba.

From this period and up to the XI century, muslim Spain Flourished, but the nothern Cristian kingdoms started to gain power and size. In that moment, almost one third of the country is already under the control of the christian kingdoms, although most of them, recognised the califa as their superior.

During XII-XIII Centuries things change completely, the division of christians are more or less overcomed, and the muslim kingdoms are completely diveded. Here starts and effort in order to conquer all Spain and expulse islam from the country. In very few years the objective seems to be rapidly achieve. One by One all the little and weak muslim kingdoms falls after the hard push of Castilla and Aragon, which were the dominant christian kingdoms.
In this moment, a revolution had happen in south Moroco, and the almohades, a sect very strong had gained power. Called by the weak spanish muslim kingdoms, they crossed the detroit of gibraltar, and faced the christian kingdoms. Again was a draw. Though more than the half of Spain was under the Christian kingdoms.

This draw finished in the XIV century, though it remained an small muslim kingdom, Granada, until 1492.

I think that this explain your questions. Spain was conquered in the process of muslim invations, which was of course conected with the religion. It was an invasion, though only possible by the acceptance of the spanish population tired of continuos civil wars. It longed for so long time due to the superiority of islam in those days and the weakness of the Christianity.

Answer 5

I believe the conquest was for the sake of expanding an empire and they happened to bring their beliefs and culture along with them.

Spain is currently mostly Catholic, but has a very strong Muslim-Arabic (moz-arabe) influence, especially in the south. (E.g. Granada's Alhambra)

Answer 6

the Moorish occupation of Spain was the high water mark of the spread of Islam after Muhammed. It was unsustainable due to the separation from it's power base.

Answer 7

Huh?

I thought spain was mostly Cathoic?

When did it change?

Answer 8

Muslims came to my house and scribbled things on my wall YAAAAYYY!!!

Answer 9

islam is peacefull religion the muslim leaders in alandalous ruled by islam so the jews and the christians lived in peace, but when the christians kings ruled they killed the muslims and the jews and they Forces muslim to convert to catholic and droped them out of alandalous(spain) .
*muslims was the mostly,read the truly history not the falls history.
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ISLAM IN SPAIN:
By the time 'Abd al-Rahman reached Spain, the Arabs from North Africa were already entrenched on the Iberian Peninsula and had begun to write one of the most glorious chapters in Islamic history.

After their forays into France were blunted by Charles Martel, the Muslims in Spain had begun to focus their whole attention on what they called al-Andalus, southern Spain (Andalusia), and to build there a civilization far superior to anything Spain had ever known. Reigning with wisdom and justice, they treated Christians and Jews with tolerance, with the result that many embraced Islam. They also improved trade and agriculture, patronized the arts, made valuable contributions to science, and established Cordoba as the most sophisticated city in Europe.

By the tenth century, Cordoba could boast of a population of some 500,000, compared to about 38,000 in Paris. According to the chronicles of the day, the city had 700 mosques, some 60,000 palaces, and 70 libraries - one reportedly housing 500,000 manuscripts and employing a staff of researchers, illuminators, and book binders. Cordoba also had some 900 public baths, Europe's first street lights and, five miles outside the city, the caliphal residence, Madinat al-Zahra. A complex of marble, stucco, ivory, and onyx, Madinat al-Zahra took forty years to build, cost close to one-third of Cordoba's revenue, and was, until destroyed in the eleventh century, one of the wonders of the age. Its restoration, begun in the early years of this century, is still under way.

Photo: A forest of eight hundred and fifty pillars connected by Moorish arches lines the great mosque of Cordoba.


By the eleventh century, however, a small pocket of Christian resistance had begun to grow, and under Alfonso VI Christian forces retook Toledo. It was the beginning of the period the Christians called the Reconquest, and it underlined a serious problem that marred this refined, graceful, and charming era: the inability of the numerous rulers of Islamic Spain to maintain their unity. This so weakened them that when the various Christian kingdoms began to pose a serious threat, the Muslim rulers in Spain had to ask the Almoravids, a North African Berber dynasty, to come to their aid. The Almoravids came and crushed the Christian uprising, but eventually seized control themselves. In 1147, the Almoravids were in turn defeated by another coalition of Berber tribes, the Almohads.

Although such internal conflict was by no means uncommon- the Christian kingdoms also warred incessantly among themselves- it did divert Muslim strength at a time when the Christians were beginning to negotiate strong alliances, form powerful armies, and launch the campaigns that would later bring an end to Arab rule.

The Arabs did not surrender easily; al-Andalus was their land too. But, bit by bit, they had to retreat, first from northern Spain, then from central Spain. By the thirteenth century their once extensive domains were reduced to a few scattered kingdoms deep in the mountains of Andalusia - where, for some two hundred years longer, they would not only survive but flourish.

It is both odd and poignant that it was then, in the last two centuries of their rule, that the Arabs created that extravagantly lovely kingdom for which they are most famous: Granada. It seems as if, in their slow retreat to the south, they suddenly realized that they were, as Washington Irving wrote, a people without a country, and set about building a memorial: the Alhambra, the citadel above Granada that one writer has called "the glory and the wonder of the civilized world."

The Alhambra was begun in 1238 by Muhammad ibn al-Ahmar who, to buy safety for his people when King Ferdinand of Aragon laid siege to Granada, once rode to Ferdinand's tent and humbly offered to become the king's vassal in return for peace.

Photo: Pool in the Patio de los Arrayanes reflects the grandeur of the incomparable Alhambra.

It was a necessary move, but also difficult - particularly when Ferdinand called on him to implement the agreement by providing troops to help the Christians against Muslims in the siege of Seville in 1248. True to his pledge, Ibn al-Ahmar complied and Seville fell to the Christians. But returning to Granada, where cheering crowds hailed him as a victor, he disclosed his turmoil in that short, sad reply that he inscribed over and over on the walls of the Alhambra: "There is no victor but God."

Over the years, what started as a fortress slowly evolved under Ibn al-Ahmar's successors into a remarkable series of delicately lovely buildings, quiet courtyards, limpid pools, and hidden gardens. Later, after Ibn al-Ahmar's death, Granada itself was rebuilt and became, as one Arab visitor wrote, "as a silver vase filled with emeralds."

Meanwhile, outside Granada, the Christian kings waited. In relentless succession they had retaken Toledo, Cordoba, and Seville. Only Granada survived. Then, in 1482, in a trivial quarrel, the Muslim kingdom split into two hostile factions and, simultaneously, two strong Christian sovereigns, Ferdinand and Isabella, married and merged their kingdoms. As a result, Granada fell ten years later. On January 2, 1492 - the year they sent Columbus to America - Ferdinand and Isabella hoisted the banner of Christian Spain above the Alhambra and Boabdil, the last Muslim king, rode weeping into exile with the bitter envoi from his aged mother, "Weep like a woman for the city you would not defend like a man!"

Photo: A Moorish-built tower soars above Guadalquivir River in Seville.

In describing the fate of Islam in Spain, Irving suggested that the Muslims were then swiftly and thoroughly wiped out. Never, he wrote, was the annihilation of a people more complete. In fact, by emigration to North Africa and elsewhere, many Muslims carried remnants of the Spanish era with them and were thus able to make important contributions to the material and cultural life of their adopted lands.

Much of the emigration, however, came later. At first, most Muslims simply stayed in Spain; cut off from their original roots by time and distance they quite simply had no other place to go. Until the Inquisition, furthermore, conditions in Spain were not intolerable. The Christians permitted Muslims to work, serve in the army, own land, and even practice their religion - all concessions to the importance of Muslims in Spain's still prosperous economy. But then, in the period of the Inquisition, all the rights of the Muslims were withdrawn, their lives became difficult, and more began to emigrate. Finally, in the early seventeenth century, most of the survivors were forcibly expelled.

Answer 10

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