Tell me everything about it.

Please do not derail it with Reconquista talk.

>>14925587 (OP)

Literally impossible to talk about Al-Andalus without talking about the Reconquista, it would be like talking about Nazi Germany without talking about WW2.

Al-Andalus is just a geographic region, it wasn't a state but several over hundreds of years

They built a lot of cool mosques and popularized the use of bicolor brick patterns across the islamic world. Their class structure eerily reminds me of the colonial caste system, with the same struggle of a lower class kept beneath the ruling class due at first to religion the later to race. The struggles between arabs and berbers, combined with a culture of court intrigue made them collapse semi-regularly. A lot of surviving roman provincial families also ended up rising to prominence after conversion to islam. And it is strange how they never invaded north africa but were instead invaded by north africans repeatedly

>>14925587 (OP)

Zahiri kino

>>14925587 (OP)

>how dare they, how dare they!

>reeeee

hahaha maximum overcucked momment

kek

The most funny part is that the horseshoe archs were from Spanish origins and taken by Muslims, tbe materials used to built that Mosque were also from local Roman/Gothic buildings, the mosque itself was built over a basilica.

>>14925587 (OP)

It had pretty much the same borders as Visigothic Spain, so you could argue it was a "Coup d'Etat" which failed in the northernmost regions.

>And it is strange how they never invaded north africa but were instead invaded by north africans repeatedly

le good times soft men meme

Everything about ''islamic architecture'' is just a shittier copy of roman and persian architecture

>>14925587 (OP)

>Please do not derail it with Reconquista talk



So, Preconquista then:



Year 675, the King wamba destroys the moors invaders.



After the rebellion, the kingdom faced a new threat in the form of Saracen raiders. In the Chronicle of Alfonso III (written 200 years later) it stated, "In Wamba's time, 270 Saracen ships attacked the coast of Hispania and there all of them were burned." A single attack of this size is doubtful, however, because no other source mentions it. The Chronicle of 754 declared Moors "had long been raiding" Andalusia, "and simultaneously devastating many cities"; however, the Chronicle of 754's most recent English translator, Kenneth Baxter Wolf, holds that this refers to the year before the defeat of King Roderic by the Moors, over three decades after the removal of Wamba.

>Nasrid kingdom

More like the one place that survived being gobbled up after Las Navas de Tolosa because they were a handy source of African gold

>>14925587 (OP)

I prefer the Emirate of Sicily.

The other Muslim emirates in south western Europe are always ignored for some reason. I don't get why because you can argue the one that lasted for more than 2 fucking seconds was better than al andalus (and you can gush about the kingdom of sicily too)

>>14925587 (OP)

First of all that's a wrong map, and moors got btfo by celts and basques. Basically they stole a lot of the cities and Christian towns that already existed there. There was no such thing as innovation despite what some Islamic scholars might argue.

>Gallicia and asturias in 700 AD

>Celtic

The populace was romanized and the elite was gothic.

There is a recent spanish documentray about the Nasrid kingdom called los constructores de la alhambra. Don't know where you can watch it though.
