The early Muslim conquests annexed lands then considered part of Europe
Evidence
The Muslim attempt to conquer Europe falls into three main phases—those of the Arabs, the Tatars, and the Turks. When the Muslim armies burst out of Arabia in the seventh century, the Levant, Egypt, and North Africa were still Christian and, in fact or in principle, part of a Christian empire. Indeed, the Persian geographer Ibn Khurrada¯dhbih (died 846), one of the few who mentions the name of Europe, includes North Africa in it. The wave of conquest that engulfed these lands continued, and for a while Sicily and the other Mediterra nean islands, almost the whole of the Iberian peninsula, and even, briefly, parts of southern France, were incorporated in the Islamic Empire. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 661
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Muslim conquest of Europe came in three distinct waves; The Muslim conquests were not a foreign invasion but a unification of long-familiar peoples — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 238; Muslim conquests severed Europe from the commercial vitality it later needed — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 134 (+3 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Muslim conquest of Europe came in three distinct waves; The Muslim conquests were not a foreign invasion but a unification of long-familiar peoples — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 238; Muslim conquests severed Europe from the commercial vitality it later needed — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 134 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Napoleon’s 1798 invasion of Egypt began serious European conquest of Muslim lands
#complicates(0.71) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 172