A Second Look at How Islam Entered the Iberian Peninsula and Andalusia (Spain) Based on the Book Seven Centuries of the Rise and Fall of Islamic Civilization in Spain by Ignacio Olague

In general, the researchers of the historical issues of the Middle East and the history of Islam in Iran and other Islamic lands in the modern era, relying on the historical sources of the past centuries as well as the historiographical approaches of the European Orientalism and Islamology currents, have considered the expansion of Islam mainly the result of the Arabs’ sword fights and their conquests, and with little attention to some documentary reflections and making comparative comparisons and time and place feasibility studies, what is written in the ancient sources of Islamic history under the titles of “conquests and Maghazi” and the like have been introduced as the main lines of developments in the history of the growth and expansion of Islam. Naturally, one of the reasons for this issue, regardless of some approaches of ideological historiography schools of the new era, has been the inevitability of later researchers in using ancient writings, but in these contemporary studies, issues such as paying attention to historical material works in the fields of art and Architecture and archeology are considered less. On the other hand, some of the few studies that have been done so far, which contain new and different views on the sources of Islamic history, including the history of Islam in the land of Spain, by providing logical and documented reasons, and conducting comparative studies and feasibility studies of time and place of a more documented picture and according to the reality of how Islam spread 1. This article was previously presented in the form of a speech at the international conference “ Cultural Dialogue and Iran and Spain”, Tehran, Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran, November 26-27, 2018, and its full text is presented for the first time in this It will be published. 2. Assistant professor of History, Faculty member of the National Library and Archives of I.R. of Iran; tarafdary@yahoo.com and entered other lands, especially the Iberian Peninsula and Spain, they have been given less attention and revision. In this sense, the present article tries to review the way and how the spread of Islam in the Iberian Peninsula and Andalusia, based on the book “Seven Centuries of Rise and Fall of Islamic Civilization in Spain” by Ignacio Olagoue.