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Selected scholarship and essays from The Toro Historical Review archive.

2016-08-01

The Berber Identity: A Double Helix of Islam and War

Muslim Spain is characterized by a myriad of sophisticated and complex dynamics that invariably draw from a foundation rooted in an ethnically diverse populace made up of Arabs, Berbers, muwalladun, Mozarebs, Jews, and Christians. According to most scholars,…
2016-08-01

Mozarab Perseverance of Identity and Faith Amid Islam

During the centuries of Muslim rule in medieval Spain most Christians converted to Islam. The vast majority of citizens living in al-Andalus became Muslim within a century of their invasion. But unlike in other Muslim conquered lands, a notable amount of…