One of history's most well-known military commanders, Tariq ibn Ziyad is best known for leading the Islamic conquest of the Iberian Peninsula (Andalusia) in 711 AD. Tariq ibn Ziyad was born in 670 AD. His ancestors are said to have been members of the Nafza tribe, which is part of the Amazigh (Berber) people of North Africa, specifically Morocco. Nafza and the Tripolitanian Nafzawa in Libya, which has no connection to Tariq and his tribe, Nafza, in northern Morocco, may be misunderstood by many. Ibn Adhari al-Marrakushi mentioned in his book, where he said after mentioning Tariq’s full name, “He is Nafzi,” and in his name there is an indication of another tribe, which is the Ben Yatoft tribe, which is the Ait Yatoft tribe, located in the Moroccan countryside, bordered to the east by the Ibqwin tribe and to the north by the Mediterranean coast.
When a rational and sensible person examines the Islamic sources that discuss Al-Andalus, they will without a doubt discover significant discrepancies—not only in their consistency with one another or the level of read more integrity maintained by the authors, but also in the way these narratives occasionally elevate themselves above reality to enter a metaphysical, fictitious world. Before going into battle, leaders in this world give speeches in languages that their armies don't understand, they use their own hands to destroy opportunities for tactical withdrawal, and none of the characters in that world have any evidence that they are Arab!