2. How is the entry of Islam in Andalusia?

The Iberian Peninsula in Europe, which covers the territory of Spain and the territory of Portugal today, jutted to the south its edge is only separated by a narrow channel with the tip of the African continent. The Old Grits called the narrow strait with Hercules columns and across the narrow strait lying on the continent of Europe.

The narrow strait as far as real separates the central ocean with the Atlantic Ocean. The Iberian Peninsula, before the Visighots conquered in 507 AD, was inhabited by the Vandals. Precisely their residence is called Vandalusia. By changing his spelling and how to sound it, the Arabs in the later period called the Iberian peninsula a Andalusian.

Spain was occupied by Muslims at the time of the Caliph al-Walid (705-715 AD), one of the Caliphs of the Umayyads based in Damascus. Prior to the Spanish conquest, Muslims had conquered North Africa and made it one of the provinces of the Umayyad dynasty.

The complete control over North Africa took place at the time of the Caliph Abdul Malik (685-705 AD). Khalifah Abdul Malik appointed Hasan bin Nu'man Al-Ghassani to be the governor of the area. At the time of al-Walid's Caliph, Hasan bin Nu'man had been replaced by Musa bin Nushair.

In the days of Al-Walid, Moses bin Nushair expanded his domain by occupying Algeria and Morocco. In addition, he perfected the conquest to the areas of the former Barbarians in the mountains, so they declared their loyalty and promised to create the chaos as they had done before.

In the process of the Spanish conquest there were 3 Islamic heroes who led troops there namely Tharif ibn Malik, Thariq ibn Ziyad, and Moses ibn Nushair. However, who as a pioneer and investigator of the arrival of Islam to Andalusia is Tariq ibn Ziyad. He who had led troops across the sea of Gibralta (Jabal Thariq) headed for the Iberian peninsula. Moses ibn Nushair in 711 AD, sent an army of Muslims under the leadership of the Tariq bin Ziyad which amounted to only 7000 people and an additional 5000 troop personnel which was not comparable to the army of 100,000 strong armed gothic troops.

However, in the end, Thariq bin Ziyad achieved victory, defeating King Foderick in Bakkah a

conquering important cities like Cordova, Granada, Toledo and finally takg control of all the important cities of Spain.
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Islamic victories seem so easy. Of course this is pact and confident Islamic warrior and warrior figures and also driven by the factors favoring Islam - ain's poor social, political and economic conditions at the time.