TARIK IBN ZIYAD

täˈrĭk, fl. 711, Berber leader of the Muslim invaders of Spain. When the heirs of the Visigothic king, Witiza, requested help from the Moors of N Africa against the usurper Roderick, Tarik, with his Moorish army, crossed (711) from Africa to Gibraltar (originally named for him, in Arabic, Jebel-al-Tarik; i.e., Tarik's mountain). Tarik defeated Roderick in the same year in the battle of Guadalete, but he did not restore Witiza's heirs. Instead, he sent for African reinforcements and conquered most of the Iberian Peninsula within a few years. Thus began the Moorish domination of Spain, which was not fully ended until 1492.

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Desert Shield at Sea: What the Navy Really Did
Book by Marvin Pokrant; Greenwood Press, 1999
Subjects: Persian Gulf War, 1991--Naval Operations, American, United States--Navy--History--Persian Gulf War, 1991
...the Adabiya, Egypt, area from 7 to 22 September. TARIK IBN ZIYAD Small packages, which might contain items contributing...tion. On 12 September, the Reasoner intercepted the Tarik Ibn Ziyad, a 118,139- dwt Iraqi tanker, in the North Arabian...
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The Oxford Companion to British History
Book by John Cannon; Oxford University Press, 1997
Subjects: Great Britain--History--Encyclopedias
...point, The Rock commands the western entrance to the Mediterranean. The name derives from Djebel Tarik Mountain of Tarik after Tarik ibn Ziyad, the general leading the Moorish invasion of Spain in 711. Gibraltar was subject to numerous sieges...
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The Medieval Warhorse from Byzantium to the Crusades
Book by Ann Hyland; Combined Books, 1996
Subjects: Military History, Medieval, War Horses--Byzantine Empire--History, War Horses--Europe--History, War Horses--Middle East--History
...where he combined his forces with Tarik ibn Ziyad to continue to Saragossa. In 714 the Moorish forces split again, Tarik going to Leon and Astorga, and Musa...contemporary Muslim chronicler Tarif ibn Taric said the Moors found the Spanish...
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Western Europe
Book by John Dornberg; Oryx Press, 1996
Subjects: Europe--History, Europe--History, Local
...of 12,000 Moors and Arabs, under the Berber leader Tarik ibn Ziyad, crossed the Strait of Gibraltar from North Africa and invaded Spain. Within a few months, Ziyad completely routed the forces of King Roderick, the last...
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The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the Conflict between Islam and Christianity
Book by M. J. Akbar; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: Islam--History, Jihad--History, Social Conflict--Religious Aspects--Islam
...weakened? Caliph Abdal Maliks most brilliant generals, Tarik ibn Ziyad and Musa ibn Noosier, asked Allah for fresh lands to conquer in...Muslim Spain got a new emir, or wali , Abdul Rahman ibn Abdullah al-Ghafiki, a capable man who eased the...
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A Local Historian's Debt to Al- Tabari: The Case of Al-Azdi's Ta'rikh Al-Mawsil
Journal article by Chase F. Robinson; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 126, 2006
Subjects: Azdi, Yazid ibn Muhammad al---Criticism and interpretation, Azdi, Yazid ibn Muhammad al---Works, Historians--Criticism and interpretation, Historians--Works, Ta'rikh al-Mawsil (Nonfiction work)--Criticism and interpretation, Tabari, Muhammad ibn Jarir al---Criticism and interpretation, Tabari, Muhammad ibn Jarir al---Works
...aneedote can suffice; it concerns Ziyad ibn Ubayd Allah and Khalid al-Qasri...account and a very different Ziyad ibn Ubayd Allah. For example, apud...dinars. (111) But in Bakr ibn al-Haythams version, Ziyad has lost his case of nerves...
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Angst and Rebellion in the Fiction of Amin Zaoui
Journal article by Farida Abu-Haidar; Research in African Literatures, Vol. 30, 1999
Subjects: Africa--History, African Fiction--History And Criticism, African Literature--History And Criticism, African Poetry--History And Criticism, Postcolonialism--Africa
...several classical and modern literary figures, among them Ibn Khaldun, Shakespeare -- whom he calls "a racist...likes Derrida and Butor (151). He refers with pride to Tarik ibn Ziyad who conquered Spain, and says that he was "the only...


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encyclopedia articles on: Tarik Ibn Ziyad  - 5 results

 
 
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Tarik Ibn Ziyad
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TARIK IBN ZIYAD ta rik, fl. 711, Berber leader of the...N Africa against the usurper Roderick , Tarik, with his Moorish army, crossed (711...named for him, in Arabic, Jebel-al-Tarik; i.e., Tariks mountain). Tarik defeated...
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Roderick
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...overthrow Roderick. In any event, the Muslims under Tarik ibn Ziyad crossed (711) the Strait of Gibraltar, and Roderick...Basques, hastened south only to be defeated (711) by Tarik near Medina Sidonia. Roderick was probably killed in...
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Visigoths
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...torn by civil strife. When the last king, Roderick , seized the throne, his rivals appealed to the Muslim leader Tarik ibn Ziyad , whose victory (711) in a battle near Medina Sidonia ended the Visigothic kingdom and inaugurated the Moorish period...
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Moors
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...converted to Islam and became fanatic Muslims. They spread SW into Africa (see Mauritania ) and NW into Spain. Under Tarik ibn Ziyad they crossed to Gibraltar in 711 and easily overran the crumbling Visigothic kingdom of Roderick . They spread beyond...
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Spain
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...rent by a clash of Germanic, Hispano-Roman, and Jewish influences. When, in 711, a Muslim Berber army under Tarik ibn Ziyad crossed the Strait of Gibraltar into Spain, Roderick , the last Visigothic king, was defeated, and his kingdom...


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