Moors were Black

 

Shakespeare ignored the realities of Muslim Spain.

 

Bad source.

 

 

 

I've read that in Moroccans wooly hair is very rare

 

This description is a description of rather black person.

 

If they were black I will include them in my work

 

Maybe there was a painting of some Moorish leader or something like that ?

 

I've seen a lot of evidence that they were Negro

 

They weren't

 

Otherwise people of Spain wouldn't be like they are today. Many people in Spain resemble the Moors, but you won't find Blacks among them, except some recent immigrant.

 

 

But on the other hand there are also manuscripts depicting them as being white skinned.

 

So I think it is possible that many of them were Negro.

 

Muslim Spain, Al Andalus was founded by an Arab.

The language they spoke was Arab.

Most of the people in Muslim Spain were native Spaniards.

There were people comming from all over the Muslim world in Spain, including Arabs, Persians, Palestineans, North Africans among them.

Some of the most common immigrants were Syrians.

There were some Blacks in Spain, but they represented not even the 1% of the population, and none in higher posts.

 

What else do you want to know?

 

The obsesion of Afrocentrism with Moors is understandable, but it is false history that not match reality.

 

 

 

Does anybody know when was it created and who did it ?

 

Twelve century once again. The Almoravide invasion. You can notice that only 1 black African was in the boat full of Moors

 

You better do a homework about the Almoravides. That's the most Black you will get.

 

If you write about Moorish Spain, though, you won't find what you are looking for, because Moorish Spain was not a Subsaharan Disneyland but a Islamic Nation, strongly influenced by Middle Eastern culture, and whose race has nothing to do with SS Africa.

 

I have something to say about this subject. The overwhelming majority of muslim imigrants to Spain were Berber not Arabs. Arabs were a small minority while the Berbers were large. Arabs preferred the old Visigoth nobility over the Berbers and most of the Taifa kings were descendents from the old nobility while the rule was with the Arabs. However, during the time of Al-Mansur ibn Abi Amir he brought a lot of the tuareg berber (mostly negroid) to Al-Andalus and because of extreme political differences the revolted burning down Cordoba, Al-Zaherah and Al-Zahra and looting them. The rebellion was destroyed and a republic was proclaimed in Cordoba while the rest of the muslim held parts were divided inot the taifa. Al-Moravids were led by berbers but their elite forces were the Black cavalry which was responsible for Az-Zallaqah and other victories. Yousif ibn Tashfin himself is Black or had very dark skin based on his discriptions that maybe one of the reasons for thinking that most moors were black while they were not. There was little immigration to Al-Andalus starting with Al-Moravids,  the immigration was the other way around.

 

Al-Jassas