@sandsoftimepodcastmt: Spain’s “Reconquista” Is a Myth — Muslims Were Indigenous Spain’s history is taught backwards. By the 12th–13th century, there were over 5 million Muslims in Al-Andalus — and 70–80% of them were Muwalladun: native Iberians who had converted to Islam over centuries. This idea that “foreign North Africans invaded Spain and ruled white Europeans” is historically false. Most Andalusian Muslims were: • Indigenous Iberians • Spanish by blood • Living on land their families had occupied for generations Meanwhile, many of the kings leading the so-called “Reconquista” — Castile, León, Aragon — were dynastically tied to France, England, and northern Europe. So let’s be clear: The Reconquista was not Spaniards reclaiming Spain from outsiders. #AlAndalus #MuslimSpain #Reconquista #SpanishHistory #IslamInEurope