Was the Muslim Conquest of Spain Driven by Piety or Plunder?
Recently, the Grand Imam of Al Azhar University, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, claimed that the seventh-century Muslim conquests of the mostly Christian majority Middle East and North Africa "were not conquests of colonization that rely on the methods of
Dario Fernandez Morera Sheikh Ahmed Al Tayeb Ali Muhammad Al Salabi Ahmed Muhammad Al Maqqari Al Azhar University International Union Of Muslim Scholars
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