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The historian al-Tabari transmits a tradition attributed to Caliph Uthman, who stated that the road to Constantinople was through Hispania, "Only through Spain can Constantinople be conquered. If you conquer [Spain] you will share the reward of those who conquer [Constantinople]". The conquest of Hispania followed the conquest of the Maghreb. [7]
Islam has been present in Mexico since the mid-1950s, due to mass Spaniard and Arab settlement. The Spanish Murabitun community, now based in Granada, Spain, had one of its missionaries involved in the spread of Islam.
Brian A. Catlos, Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain Hurst/Basic Books, 2018. Review: Nicola Clarke: "Abraham's Descendants in Love, Life and War". History Today Vol. 68/10, October 2018, pp. 98–99. López García, Bernabé and Planet Contreras, Ana I.: Islam in Spain Hunter, Shireen T. (ed.), Islam, Europe's Second Religion ...
1504 – The Oran fatwa was issued, following the forced conversion of 1501–1502, providing the basis of the secret practice of Islam in Spain. [7] 1516 – King Charles I, the grandson of Ferdinand and Isabella, rises to the throne of both Castile and Aragon. With the conquest of Granada and Iberian Navarre, the modern state of Spain is ...
796: Death of Hisham in Spain; accession of al-Hakam I. 799: Defeat of an invasion by the Khazars. 800: Musa al-Kazim is poisoned in prison of Harun al-Rashid. Ali al-Rida becomes Imam. Autonomous Aghlabid rule is established in North Africa. By the end of this century, global Muslim population had grown to 2 percent of the total (centred on Iraq).
Al-Andalus (Arabic: الأَنْدَلُس, romanized: al-ʾAndalus) [a] was the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula.The name refers to the different Muslim [1] [2] states that controlled these territories at various times between 711 and 1492.
Detail of the Cantiga #63 (13th century), which deals with a late 10th-century battle in San Esteban de Gormaz involving the troops of Count García and Almanzor. [1]The Reconquista (Spanish and Portuguese for ' reconquest ') [a] or the reconquest of al-Andalus [b] was a series of military and cultural campaigns that European Christian kingdoms waged against the Muslim kingdoms following the ...
1010: Abdication of Hisham II in Spain. Accession of Muhammad II. 1011: In Spain Muhammad II is overthrown by Sulaiman II. 1012: In Spain, power is captured by Bani Hamud. Death of the Buwayhid Baha' al-Dawla, accession of Sultan al-Dawla. 1013: Berber Muslims massacre and pillage the inhabitants of Cordoba, including a large number of Jews. It ...