What happened with the Muslim Majority of Spain?

What happened with the Muslim Majority of Spain?

The history of Spain has been vast and elaborate for centuries. It seems that the sizeable Iberian nation managed to keep itself relevant rather consistently over hundreds of years, and it's often remembered as a powerful, European, Christian nation. But before the colonial era or the Spanish Inquisition, came the Reconquista - something that was only necessary due to the conquest of Spain by Muslim Arabs and Berbers. Before the Reconquista was the period launched by such invaders - the time of Islamic Spain. But where did the Muslims go? How did Spain become synonymous with Christianity instead?...

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[bokasseloreos]

Several visigoths nobles competing for power actually assisted and helped guide the Muslim conquerers, providing them with intel on locations deep in the peninsula. Also worth mentioning that the Spanish jews sided with the Muslims.

[mechagold]

A lot of people don't usually think about this but the Spanish conquest of America (or Americas) has to do a lot with the methods that the Romans and Arabs used in the peninsula rather than comparing them to the British or French. That is why indigenous tribe leaders that sweared loyalty to the Castilian crown where made nobles and the indigenous government structure was kept with the addition of race mixing of the indigenous elites and later a race mixing in the community as a whole lo create a unique identity with the Catholic Church and the Castilian crowns as a glue. It also explains why the Castilian crown became so obsessed with Catholicism, they knew religion and language were dividing factors so made sure to get rid of anything that did not align with the Kigdom.

[faridhabibi]

You mentioned at first how the "Spaniards" at first were fighting each other which lead to the weakening of modern Spain, but you didn't mention how the Muslims got weaker from fighting each other? The Muslims did the same thing the Visigoths were doing to each other before the Muslim conquest to Spain and Portugal.

[davidemmet]

What happened to the Christian majority in Turkey and all throughout the Byzantine empire?

[hoselui]

Rodriguez is one of the most common surnames in Spain, Rodriguez means son of Rodrigo and Rodrigo comes from Visigothic name Roderic so Rodriguez is a surname of Germanic origin.

[massageurope]

One important fact that hasn’t been mentioned in your presentation is that the Northern region of Asturias was never conquered by the Muslim. In fact that’s the region where the “re-conquest” of Iberia begun to develop.

[MatijaCG]

Fun fact: Most of the Bosnian Jews, mainly in Sarajevo are descendants of the expelled Spanish Jews. Sadly a lot of them were killed during Holocaust in WW2.

[FidelCashflow]

As a Spaniard and a proud Andalusian, I will tell you we got rid of them. Don't try to bring your false prophets to España. Jesus is King, No mortal or other false god will ever be higher.

[claudem]

The Arabic influence in Spanish is primarily lexical. Is estimated that around 4, 000 Spanish words have some kind of Arabic influence—8% of the Spanish dictionary. Approximately 1, 000 of those have Arabic roots, while the other 3, 000 are derived words.

[javiersaugar]

Note, the Umayyads, did NOT take the whole of the Iberian peninsula in 711, you seem to have completely overlooked that in the North, in Oviedo, the Christian Visigoths of the region put up a fight and defeated the Muslims at the Battle of Covadonga, preventing them from total control of the peninsula as they were rebuffed by the small newly formed Kingdom of Asturias led by the victor the battle, Pelagius .

[unmvedmver]

Asturias and Cantabria weren't part of Al-Andalus, they were a Christian stronghold during the Muslim occupation of the Iberian Peninsula. The "Cantabrian Refuge" was so well-protected it was the last region in western Europe conquered by the Roman Empire.

[nobody]

There was never any indigenous Muslims in Europe.

[alexbrd]

Good video, although it's clearly incomplete.
One can not discuss what happened to the muslims of Al-Andalus without talking about the actual Morocco.
Cities like Tetouan and Tangier in the north of Morocco have a huge andalusian influence, which was brought by the expelled muslims.
Fez as well, and even Tlemçen in Algeria also kept several andalusian traditions and some of the notable families still have unchanged spanish family names like Torres, Perez, Toledano (which means "from Toledo")...
It is said that some families still have the keys to their homes in the kingdom of Granada, as a symbol of their andalusian origins.

[Sabotador]

I am Brazilian, but on my father's side, the family came from southern Spain, from Granada. They were moors many centuries prior. Supposedly, according to family legend, they were corsairs who served the Spanish crown during the age of sail.

[efanjul]

Why do they always refer to the king and queen of Spain with the Italian translation of their names? It's something I have never been able to figure out. Their real names are Fernando and Isabel (Spanish), not Ferdinando and Isabella (Italian).

[RENATVS_IV]

Thank you for those who translated the video to Spanish. Very useful!

[jf]

Overall a really well made and informative summary of the topic. Though very disappointed at the lack of mention of King Pelayo, the Kingdom of Asturias and the Battle of Covadonga which is considered by many to be the start of the Reconquista and the sole reason why, for better or for worse, Hispanic culture/civilisation even exists in the first place today!

[andrefalcao]

Two major blunders in this video: 1. Missing that the Asturias were never conquered by the Muslims and actually was the root of the "Reconquista"; 2. Missing completely the importance of Portugal, that actually became a Kingdom with all its defined borders much earlier than Spain, had vanquished the Moors by mid 13th century. All Muslims were formally expelled from Portugal in the late 15 Century

[georgebronte]

@8:02. "Indigenous Islam in Spain"? Correction: Islam was NOT Indigenous to Spain, it was imposed by the Islamic conquerors, as was stated earlier in this presentation.

[Lingist]

Indigenous Islam? Islam is not indigenous to Iberia. Islam is only indigenous to the Arab peninsula. You guys literally showed that Islam is not indigenous to Iberia.