The Golden Age of Moorish Civilization

The Golden Age of Moorish And Numidian Civilisations
During the Middle Ages, Moor was a common term to refer to the Muslims of the Islamic Iberian Peninsula and North Africa, who were of Berbers "amazigh" descent. They inhabited the Iberian Peninsula after the Muslim conquests of the Rashidun and Umayyad Caliphates.

Today, the word remains associated with the Morrocan immigrants in Spain, and is considered a pejorative word. It is sometimes used in a wider context to describe any denizen of North Africa. Similarly, in Spanish, the cognate moro is considered a racist and derogative term. But the Spanish still use it and even think of it as a neutral word in local sayings such as "no hay moros en la costa" (lit. "there are no moors on the coast

Although the Moors came to be associated with Muslims, the name Moor pre-dates Islam. It derives from the small Numidian Kingdom of Maure of the third century BC in what is now northern central and western part of Algeria and a part of northern Morocco. The name came to be applied to people of the entire region. "They were called Maurisi by the Greeks," wrote Strabo, "and Mauri by the Romans." During that age, the Maure or Moors were trading partners of Carthage, the independent city state founded by Phoenicians. During the second Punic war between Carthage and Rome, two Moorish Numidian kings took different sides, Syphax with Carthage, Masinissa with the Romans, decisively so at Zama. Thereafter, the Moors entered into treaties with Rome. Under King Jugurtha collateral violence against merchants brought war. Juba, a later king, was a friend of Rome. Eventually, the region was incorporated into the Roman Empire as the provinces of Mauretania Caesariensis and Mauretania Tingitana; the area around Carthage already being the province of Africa. Roman rule was beneficial and effective enough so that these provinces became fully integrated into the empire. During the Christian era, two prominent African churchmen were Tertullian and St. Augustine. After the fall of Rome, the Germanic kingdom of the Vandals ruled much of the area; a century later they were displaced by Byzantine incursions. Neither Vandal nor Byzantine exercised an effective rule, the interior being under Moorish Berber "amazigh" control The Berbers resisted for over 50 years Arab armies from the east. Especially memorable was that led by Kahina"HIHIA" Queen the Berber prophetess of the Awras, during 690-701. Yet by the 92nd lunar year after the Hijra, the Muslims had prevailed across North Africa, some 5.6 million of Iberia's 7 million inhabitants were Muslim by 1200 AD, virtually all of them native inhabitants. The persecution and forced conversion to Catholicism of the Muslim population during the time of the Catholic reconquista in the second part of the 15th century, causing a mass exodus, are considered the main reasons why their number shrank to one-third by 1600.

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[EmperorAhmedGran]

I have many Berber friends so i know they are not 'Arabs' , but in any case Al-Andalus was definitely a Golden Age not just in Islamic History/North African History but human history as a whole.

[atlasunion]

whaaaaaat???

the origins of the word MOOR was MOOR-ish people = Moor occans - EL MORO -LOS MOROS=MOOROSH =Amazigh of western Atlas

it cames from the word MOOR+akch =Marrakesh =land merits to be kissed

[aziz79]

were can I see the whole movie?? looks very interesting

[manguy92]

is this from a movie? if so, which one?

[missdramamama007]

@lem7acher the abomination they brought, then they should also hate France for bringing great amounts of massacre and destruction to North Africa and should call them some equally dumb name. I don't want to fight about this but what I am trying to say here is that all this talk about hatred etc... Norht Africa and the Middle East aren't going to improve if we keep holding past grudges and hate. Sorry for the lengthy reply.

[ruapraia]

I find the people in this video beautiful.

[darkstar3x16]

Fuck Islam spread to north africa by the sword they didn't come to north africa with peace

[civilisationskerl]

YEAHHH BERBER PRIDE!!!!!!

[kalufutbolero10]

Idiots! Lol! We all know to believe the movies when it comes to actual looks and appearances of a people *sarcasm*. History backs up those so called afrocentrics claims. So brainwashed. You watch a movie and automatically in your racists heads that has to be truth. Lol! I will put this in the books along with the image of Ceasar Borgia as Jesus. ROTFL!

[EnlightenedShqiptar]

@samysamy25 But samy, don't forget. This was still a Muslim civilization and was not destined to accomplish much in the long run.

[lewtify]

Them afrocentorists can go to hell after watching this clip