text:  The name _Andalus_ is derived by some authors from a great grandson of Noah so named who settled there soon after the deluge; but Al-Makkari rather inclines with Ibn Khaldun and other writers to deduce it from the _Andalosh _ (Vandals ) "a tribe of barbarians " who appear to be considered as the earliest inhabitants; but who having incurred the divine wrath by their wickedness and idolatry were all cut off by a terrible drought which left the land for a hundred years an uninhabited desert