How did Muslim Spain become Christian?

Question

Was it by oppression of religion by any chance?

Answer 1

The Spanish Inquisition - it was a slaughter.

Answer 2

The real question is How did Spain become Muslim?

It was through the moorish conquest taking up the vaccuum formed by the decaying Roman Empire. The Moors marched over and announced that Spain was now Muslim. The people living there at the time were probably surprised by that announcement. On the other hand, the knife at their throat probably convinced them to go along with it.


It became Christian when the Christians (some local some from "out of town") drove the moors out.
in 1212, Christian armies defeat Moors at Navas de Tolosa marking the beginning of the end of Moorish reign.

Since the moors were clearly black Africans (not Arab) and the original Spaniards were European descent, Obviously the invading forces in the territory were the muslim Moors.

But, in Christianity, who your king is has no bearing on one's own personal spirituality. Each Christian generation must connect with God, you do not inherit your faith, just your religion. (Does that make sense?)

Answer 3

In a nutshell: Spain was Christian for centuries before the Muslims conquered it. After they did, they were undeniably more civilized in their desire for comfort, power and the good life than the supplanted Christians, although their civilized behavior stopped dead at being decent toward anyone else.

Eventually the Christians got tired of being low man on the Spanish totem pole and began to divide and conquer the various Muslim mini-kingdoms. They finally succeeded in driving the last of them away when Ferdinand and Isabella (you remember them...of Christopher Columbus fame), married, joined their armies and clobbered the last of the Muslims, driving them forth from the whole of the Iberian Peninsula with the help of the Portuguese army. The Portuguese hadn't been part of the Spanish Moors' dominions so they had plenty of hearty fighting men and were more than willing to assist a fellow Catholic monarch...for a price. Fortunately Ferdinand and Isabella had the money and Spain became once again a Catholic nation, united under a single ruling family.

BTW, one of their daughters was Katharine of Aragon...you know her, of Henry VIII's "get rid of this b***h so I can have a son" fame.

Answer 4

1492. The rest of the story is the expulsion of both Muslims and Jews. Any who stayed were forced to convert.

Answer 5

this is how


The Caliphate treated non-Muslims differently at different times. The longest period of tolerance began after 912, with the reign of Abd-ar-Rahman III and his son, Al-Hakam II where the Jews of Al-Andalus prospered, devoting themselves to the service of the Caliphate of Cordoba, to the study of the sciences, and to commerce and industry, especially to trading in silk and slaves, in this way promoting the prosperity of the country. Southern Iberia became an asylum for the oppressed Jews of other countries.[18][19]

Christians, braced by the example of their co-religionists across the borders of al-Andalus, sometimes asserted the claims of Christianity and knowingly courted martyrdom, even during these tolerant periods. For example, forty-eight Christians of Córdoba were decapitated for religious offences against Islam. They became known as the Martyrs of Córdoba. These deaths played out, not in a single spasm of religious unrest, but over an extended period of time; dissenters were fully aware of the fates of their predecessors and chose to protest against Islamic rule.[20]

With the death of al-Hakam III in 976, the situation worsened for non-Muslims in general. The first major persecution occurred on December 30, 1066 when the Jews were expelled from Granada and fifteen hundred families were killed when they did not leave. Under the Almoravids and the Almohads there may have been intermittent persecution of Jews,[21] but sources are extremely scarce and do not give a clear picture, though the situation appears to have deteriorated after 1160.[22]

During these successive waves of violence against non-Muslims, many Jewish and even Muslim scholars left the Muslim-controlled portion of Iberia for the then-still relatively tolerant city of Toledo, which had been reconquered in 1085 by Christian forces. Some Jews joined the armies of the Christians (about 40,000), while others joined the Almoravids in the fight against Alfonso VI of Castile.

The 11th century saw Muslim pogroms against Jews in Spain; those occurred in Cordoba in 1011 and in Granada in 1066.[23][24][25]

The Almohads, who had taken control of the Almoravids' Maghribi and Andalusian territories by 1147,[26] far surpassed the Almoravides in fundamentalist outlook, and they treated the dhimmis harshly. Faced with the choice of either death or conversion, many Jews and Christians emigrated.[27][28] Some, such as the family of Maimonides, fled south and east to more tolerant Muslim lands,[27] while others went northward to settle in the growing Christian kingdoms.[29][30] However, the Almohads also encouraged the arts and letters, especially the falsafah movement that included Ibn Tufail, Ibn al-Arabi and Averroes.[26]

Medieval Spain and Portugal was the scene of almost constant warfare between Muslims and Christians. Periodic raiding expeditions were sent from Al-Andalus to ravage the Christian Spanish and Portuguese kingdoms, bringing back booty and slaves. In raid against Lisbon in 1189, for example, the Almohad caliph Yaqub al-Mansur took 3,000 female and child captives, while his governor of Córdoba, in a subsequent attack upon Silves in 1191, took 3,000 Christian slaves.[31]

Answer 6

Blood-letting.

Answer 7

When was Spain Muslim?

It was christian before the time of Muhammad.

Peace!

Answer 8

No nation is "christian". Individuals are Christians, but a nation cannot be.

Now Spain is not "christian", it is predominantly catholic. Catholics are not saved Christians. The genocidal Vatican killed millions throughout Europe to meet its political goals.

Answer 9

just a move from one nonesense to another
and lot of slaughter

not a huge change in underlying beleif