The prevailing image of the moors as fair-skinned, Arab conquerors has dominated popular imagination. However, a growing body of research and evidence has shed new light on the racial identity of the moors, challenging long-held assumptions and bringing to the fore the idea that the moors were, in fact, [Black].

https://thisweekinlibraries.com/unpacking-the-controversy-were-the-moors-really-black/

#blackhistory #arabhistory #blackmastodon

https://soltlane.com/product/seerah-biography/hayatus-sahaba-english/

#KhalidibnWalid #SwordofAllah #EarlyIslam #MilitaryHistory #IslamicConquests #ByzantineEmpire #ControversialFigures #ArabHistory #Legacy #Legends #MilitaryTactics #Islam #Muslim #Muslimah #Quran

@[email protected]
It also reminds very much of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 'I Became Black in America'.
"I became Black in America.... In Nigeria, I was Igbo and Roman Catholic ...",
"First of all, I wasn’t black until I came to America. I became black in America.
Growing up in Nigeria, I didn’t think about race because I didn’t need to think about race."

#Exonym #WhitePeople #Maghreb #ArabHistory #EuropeanHistory #AfricanHistory #Colonialism