Dark Side History: Tariq ibn Ziyad, the Muslim Berber conqueror of the Iberian Peninsula!(711-718AD)

Tariq ibn Ziyad, the Muslim Berber conqueror of the Iberian Peninsula! (711-718 AD) Ṭāriq ibn Ziyād (670 – c. 720 AD) was the Muslim Umayyad commander who initiated the conquest of the Iberian peninsula (Modern day Spain and Portugal) in 711, resulting in the takeover of most of the peninsula from the previous Visogothic kingdom and the establishment of Al-Andalus, the Islamic dominated parts of the Iberian peninsula in 711-1492 AD. This video is about him and the context around him and his conquest of the Iberian peninsula .

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Camuera, J., et al. Drought as a possible contributor to the Visigothic Kingdom crisis and Islamic expansion in the Iberian Peninsula. Nat Commun 14, 5733 (2023).

Crónica mozárabe/Mozarabic Chronicle/Continuatio Hispana of 754 A.D as translated by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi

Graham, C. 1995. The Meaning of Slavery and Identity in al-Andalus: The Epistle of Ibn Garcia. Arab studies journal. 3(1), pp.68–79.

Ibn Abd al-Hakam, Kitab Futuh Misr wa'l Maghrib wa'l Andalus.

Jackson, Gabriel. 1972. The Making of Medieval Spain. London: Thames and Hudson.

Foster, K.M. 2020. Reinterpreting the Conquest: 9th–13th Century Portrayals of Andalusi History. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.’

Kennedy, Hugh (1996). Muslim Spain and Portugal: A Political History of al-Andalus. Routledge.

Khaṭṭāb, Maḥmūd Shīt, Qādat Fatḥ Al-Andalus (Damascus: Dār Manār li-l-Nashr wa al-Tawzīʿ,2003), 216-219.

Molina, L. (2000). "Ṭāriḳ b. Ziyād". In Bearman, P. J.; Bianquis, Th.; Bosworth, C. E.; van Donzel, E. & Heinrichs, W. P. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume X: T–U. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

Muhammad al-Idrisi, Kitab nuzhat al-mushtaq (1154). Critical edition of the Arabic text: Opus geographicum: sive "Liber ad eorum delectationem qui terras peragrare studeant." (ed. Bombaci, A. et al., 9 Fascicles, 1970–1978). Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples.

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