Al-Andalus (Arabic: الأَنْدَلُس) was the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula.The term is used by modern historians for the former Islamic states in modern Spain and Portugal. At its greatest geographical extent, it occupied most of the peninsula and a part of present-day southern France, Septimania (8th century). For nearly a hundred years, from the 9th century to the 10th ...

Al-Andalus, also called Muslim Spain, 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 was originally applied by the Muslims (Moors) to the entire Iberian Peninsula; it likely refers to the Vandals who occupied the region in the 5th century. In …

Abd al-Rahman I ibn Mu’awiya (in full: Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu'awiya ibn Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan; 7 March 731 – 30 September 788; Arabic: عبد الرحمن الأول) was the founder of the Umayyad Arab dynasty that ruled the greater part of Iberia for nearly three centuries (including the succeeding Caliphate of Córdoba).Abd al-Rahman was a member of the Umayyad dynasty in ...

Arabic literature, the body of written works produced in the Arabic language. The tradition of Arabic literature stretches back some 16 centuries to unrecorded beginnings in the Arabian Peninsula. At certain points in the development of European civilization, the literary culture of Islam and its Arabic medium of expression came to be regarded not only as models for …

Al-Ándalus (en árabe clásico, الأندلس o الأَنْدَلُس‎) es el nombre que en la Edad Media dieron los musulmanes a la península ibérica. [1] Algunos autores restringen el término al territorio peninsular —e inicialmente de la Septimania— bajo poder musulmán entre los años 711 y 1492. [2] Para los autores árabes medievales, el término de al-Ándalus designa la ...

Jeddah (English: / ˈ dʒ ɛ d ə / JED-ə), also spelled Jedda, Jiddah or Jidda (/ ˈ dʒ ɪ d ə / JID-ə; Arabic: جِدَّة ‎, romanized: Jidda, Hejazi pronunciation: [ˈdʒɪd.da]), is a city in the Hejaz region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the country's commercial center. Established in the 6th century BC as a fishing village, Jeddah's prominence grew in 647 when the ...

The study of the earliest periods in Islamic history is made difficult by a lack of sources. For example, the most important historiographical source for the origins of Islam is the work of al-Tabari. While al-Tabari is considered an excellent historian by the standards of his time and place, he made liberal use of mythical, legendary, stereotyped, distorted, and polemical presentations …

In the second half of the 7th century ce (1st century ah), Byzantine strongholds in North Africa gave way before the Arab advance. Carthage fell in 698. In 705 al-Walīd I, the sixth caliph of the Umayyad dynasty, the first great Muslim dynasty centred in Damascus, appointed Mūsā ibn Nuṣayr governor in the west; Mūsā annexed all of North Africa as far as Tangier (Ṭanjah) and …

Abd al-Rahman ibn Abd Allah al-Ghafiqi (en arabe : عبد الرحمن بن عبد الله الغافقي [1], [2]), est un général omeyyade et wali d'al-Andalus [3] du viii e siècle. Abd al-Rahman a mené les troupes musulmanes d' al-Andalus , contre les armées aquitaines d' Eudes et franques de Charles Martel , lors de la bataille de ...

al-Andalus (arabisch الأندلس, Zentralatlas-Tamazight ⴰⵏⴷⴰⵍⵓⵙ Andalus) ist der arabische Name für die zwischen 711 und 1492 muslimisch beherrschten Teile der Iberischen Halbinsel. Staatsrechtlich war al-Andalus nacheinander eine von Kalif Al-Walid I. begründete Provinz des Kalifats der Umayyaden (711–750) bzw. der Abbasiden (750–756), das Emirat von Córdoba …