The Muslim Conquest of Spain, by Agha Ibrahim Akram

The brilliant first act of a glorious play that was to span almost eight centuries, the Muslim conquest of Spain is perhaps one of the most significant events in the history of mankind. Less than a century after the Hegira, Islam thus entered Europe for the first time to write some of its finest letters of nobility...

Led by the most brilliant generals and warriors of their time, Tariq ibn Ziyad the fiery Berber, Musa ibn Nusayr the Arab strategist or even Mughis the Roman, a few thousand horsemen from North Africa and the East defeated the tyranny of the Visigoths, opened up the Iberian Peninsula to the faith of Muhammad and went all the way to the Loire. A population exasperated by centuries of oppression and barbarism welcomed the Islamic armies, bearers of a new order imbued with justice and tolerance, as liberators, while many natives rallied irresistibly to the intransigent monotheism of their conquerors: magic of al-Andalus, jewel of Islamic civilization as of all humanity, was born.

For the first time translated into French, the work of the great military historian Agha Ibrahim Akram, an emeritus specialist in the first conquests of the Muslim era, brings us to life the exploits of these men who engraved their names forever in gold letters. in History, immerses us in the roots of al-Andalus and gives us the most complete work on the subject, from the first Berber landings to the expeditions in France and the great fitna which opened the door to the Reconquista...