enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Moorish sovereign citizens - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorish_sovereign_citizens

    The Moorish sovereign movement, sometimes called the indigenous sovereign movement or the Rise of the Moors, is a small sub-group of sovereign that mainly holds to the teachings of the Moorish Science Temple of America, in that African Americans are descendants of the Moabites and thus are "Moorish" by nationality, and Islamic by faith.

  3. Moors - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moors

    The Ceylon Moors (unlike the Indian Moors) are descendants of Arab traders who settled there in the mid-6th century. When the Portuguese arrived in the early 16th century, they labelled all the Muslims in the island as Moors as they saw some of them resembling the Moors in North Africa.

  4. Mauri - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauri

    Mauretanian cavalry under Lusius Quietus fighting in the Dacian Wars, from the Column of Trajan. Mauri (from which derives the English term "Moors") was the Latin designation for the Berber population of Mauretania, located in the west side of North Africa on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, Mauretania Tingitana and Mauretania Caesariensis, in present-day Morocco and northwestern Algeria.

  5. Beidane - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beidane

    Beidane or Bidān, also spelled Baydan or Beydan (Arabic: بيضان), is an Arabic term [note 1] used in Mauritania to refer to lighter-skinned or "white Moors", in contrast to the term Haratine, which refers to those with a darker complexion or "black Moors".

  6. Morisco - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morisco

    Moriscos (Spanish: [moˈɾiskos], Catalan: [muˈɾiskus]; Portuguese: mouriscos [moˈɾiʃkuʃ]; Spanish for "Moorish") were former Muslims and their descendants whom the Catholic Church and Habsburg Spain commanded to forcibly convert to Christianity or face compulsory exile after Spain outlawed Islam.

  7. ‘Biggest badass’ warship moors off the south coast - AOL

    www.aol.com/biggest-badass-warship-world-moors...

    The “biggest badass” warship in the world has moored off the south coast of England. The 333m-long USS Gerald R Ford, which is the newest and largest aircraft carrier in the US fleet and the ...

  8. When the Moors Ruled in Europe - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_The_Moors_Ruled_In_Europe

    It is a two-part series on the contribution the Moors made to Europe during their 700-year reign in Spain and Portugal ending in the 15th century. It was first broadcast on Channel 4 Saturday 5 November 2005, [ 2 ] and was filmed in the Spanish region of Andalusia , mostly in the cities of Granada , Cordoba and the Moroccan city of Fes .

  9. Moorish Gibraltar - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorish_Gibraltar

    Gibraltar's Islamic history began with the arrival of Tariq ibn-Ziyad on 27 April 711 at the start of the Umayyad conquest of Hispania.Traditionally, Tariq was said to have landed on the shores of the Rock of Gibraltar, which was henceforth named after him (Jabal Ṭāriq (جبل طارق), English: "Mountain of Tariq" – a name which was later corrupted into "Gibraltar" by the Spanish). [1]