Islamic Conquest happened 800 years prior to the Inquisition and Reconquista..
Excuse me 800 years of Islamic civilisation and history wiped entirely out by the Spanish/Portuguese inquisition against Non-Catholics which included mostly Jews and Muslims who were tortured and forced to convert or leave entirely. A very intellectual and advanced society, unlike the rest of Europe which was entirely backward. At least 80% of the population in the Iberian Peninsula were Muslims of Iberian descent not Arab descent from around 1100, just before the Reconquista and Inquisition came into play. Read the history mate instead of making assumptions.
Almeria, Lisbon, Córdoba, Seville, Granada and Malaga were all historical Islamic cities in the Iberian Peninsula.
Excuse you indeed, no assumptions made...
711AD is the approximate year of the first (but not final conquest in Spain) by Islamic forces, within 80 years of the death of Mohammed (632 AD). "After this eight-year campaign, Muslim forces attempted to move north-east across the Pyrenees Mountains toward France, but were defeated by the Frankish Christian Charles Martel at the Battle of Tours in 732."
"Several historical sources state that the Islamic caliphate had not actually targeted Spain for conquest, but that political divisions within the Visigothic kingdom created an opportunity that Tariq and his army exploited successfully."
The decline of this society began in 1130*, long before the Inquisition of 1478. The Inquisition marked the end of Islamic Spain if you like it in 1492, with the capture of Granada. *yes the Reconquesta.
Firstly, it could be said hardly 800 years. Islamic rule lasted about 300 (lets be generous and say 400**) for Spain over all the region and only in Granada is your figure close with 770-781 years.
But yes your figure can work also if you say Islam leadership was present in Spain from 711 to around 1614.
But I think the main thing is resistance began a lot earlier. But it is one of those hot topics of history. (** consider that Islamic rule in NW Spain lasted only 28 years, and 770-781 in the far SE of the region)
Scholarship disputes the peaceful coexistence of different faiths within this Islamic era in Spain.
But yes it is a very interesting segment of history, that is highly debated. This BBC article is my main reference starting point for the moment...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/history/spain_1.shtml
"Christian" aggression and "Islamic" divisions (internally) both led to the fall of Islamic Spain as you would call it. And hence after that began the Inquisition. I don't think the Inquisition is excusable; but that's politics/war for you though.
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My point is not to justify the Inquisition and all that, but that it was all a story of warfare, and from the very beginning with the conquest of 711 AD, it was opposed somewhat from the very beginning. The "golden age", stability of that period, is hotly contested as well, and has been studied by many.
I have found that with both of the world's largest religions, and possibly Judaism/Zoroastrianism especially from the time of Constantine to the time post-Reformation/Enlightenment, there was an unfortunate connection between politics and religion, so much so that political conquest was equated with the conquest of God/Allah etc.