id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9919 History of Spain - Wikipedia .html text/html 22625 1996 68 The Muslim conquerors (also known as "Moors") were Arabs and Berbers; following the conquest, conversion and arabization of the Hispano-Roman population took place, [37] (muwalladum or Muladi).[38][39] After a long process, spurred on in the 9th and 10th centuries, the majority of the population in Al-Andalus eventually converted to Islam.[40] The Muslim population was divided per ethnicity (Arabs, Berbers, Muladi), and the supremacy of Arabs over the rest of group was a recurrent causal for strife, rivalry and hatred, particularly between Arabs and Berbers.[41] Arab elites could be further divided in the Yemenites (first wave) and the Syrians (second wave).[42] Male Muslim rulers were often the offspring of female Christian slaves.[43] Christians and Jews were allowed to live as subordinate groups of a stratified society under the dhimmah system,[44] although Jews became very important in certain fields.[45] Some Christians migrated to the Northern Christian kingdoms, while those who stayed in Al-Andalus progressively arabised and became known as musta'arab (mozarabs).[46] Besides slaves of Iberian origin,[43] the slave population also comprised the Ṣaqāliba (literally meaning "slavs", although they were slaves of generic European origin) as well as Sudanese slaves.[47] The frequent raids in Christian lands provided Al-Andalus with continuous slave stock, including women who often became part of the harems of the Muslim elite.[43] Slaves were also shipped from Spain to elsewhere in the Ummah.[43] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9919.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9919.txt