In 2024 according to the Islamic Commission of Spain, there are 2.5 million Muslims in Spain, which is about 5.32 percent of the population of 47 million Spaniards. The number of converts, as per the commission, has increased to an estimated 10 times in the past three decades.

Following the Muslim conquest of Spain, al-Andalus, then at its greatest extent, was divided into five administrative units, corresponding very roughly to: modern Andalusia; Castile and León; Navarre, Aragon, and Catalonia; Portugal and Galicia; and the …

Sep 4, 2009 · Islamic Spain was a multi-cultural mix of Muslims, Christians and Jews. It brought a degree of civilisation to Europe that matched the heights of the Roman Empire and the Italian...

6 days ago · A major Amazigh uprising against the Arabs in North Africa had powerful repercussions in Muslim Spain; it caused the depopulation of the northwestern peninsula, occupied at that time mainly by Imazighen, and brought the Syrian army of Balj to Al-Andalus, which introduced a new motive for discord.

The Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula (Arabic: فَتْحُ الأَنْدَلُس, romanized: fatḥu l-andalus; 711–720s), also known as the Arab conquest of Spain, [1] was the Umayyad conquest of the Visigothic Kingdom of Hispania in the early 8th century. The conquest resulted in the end of Christian rule in most of Iberia and the establishment of Muslim Arab-Moorish rule in that ...

Nov 7, 2024 · Islamic Spain began in 711 CE when Muslim forces led by Tariq ibn Ziyad crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and defeated the Visigothic kingdom in the Battle of Guadalete. Which Muslim ruler conquered Spain?

Explore the fascinating history of Islamic Spain, or al-Andalus, as well as the developments in science and culture that paved the way for the Renaissance.

The history of Islamic Spain, or al-Andalus, was marred by both interfaith coexistence and conflict, yet laid the foundations for the European Renaissance.

Jan 18, 2025 · Spain - Muslim, Architecture, Cuisine: Arab civilization in the peninsula reached its zenith when the political power of the Arabs began to decline. Immediately following the Muslim conquest in the 8th century, there were no traces of a cultural level higher than that attained by the Mozarabs who lived among the Arab conquerors.

Although Spain in the sixteenth century was nominally Christian, large numbers of “converted” Muslims, isolated in the mountains of the south or scattered through the regions of Valencia and Aragón, retained their Islamic practices.