The opposite, the ummayds use them to have a powerbase outside native faris,here the push for using native Faris among muladi and Berber would make them superfluous or even to dismantle to not give a rival a powerbase
Perhaps they would just set up trading outposts instead of colonizing land
I wrote it wrong "The correct one would be had gained popularity " Sorry
This is an interesting thing to think about. When the slave soldier is on the rise in the Islamic world, the opposite would occur in Al-Andalus. This in theory is great, while Mamelukes are great warriors they are terrible for the health of the country, especially when they take power. A good example is the Mamluks in Egypt who withstood the Mongol advance but at the same time stagnated and in many ways destroyed the Egyptian economy (with the country becoming a cash cow for the Venizians with Mamluk support).
Yes, especially in the Middle East. But this image of Faris is what a Banu Qasi knight would look like. So considering that he is not Arab or Berber, the climate and environment is not the same, I would say that Faris is well represented in this case. Islamic iberia has a tradition of adopting more European armor (especially if we are talking about locals and not outside groups). The armor of the last emir of Granada, for example, was European.
No, because Andalus was not tolerant. Well, no more or less than other Islamic kingdoms of the time. Even with the reforms imposed by Umar that will make this issue considerably more flexible, it is always in the context of Abrahamic religions. That is, in the religions tolerated by Islam (Christianity and Judaism), paganism will not be tolerated or accepted. Now whether they are going to enter the new world dispute or not, natives will be converted or given the sword (similar to what happened with the Christian powers).
That's an unique butterfly when you raise that support base, doesn't need the proto mercenaries as you know can get professional and semi professional soldiers instead.
Butterflies, there thousands of butterflies.
is the mita system when desacralized compatible with Ummayad doctrine.
It is curious what would be the best comparison to this Andalusian army. In Egypt we have the Mameluks, perhaps it would be similar to the Khurasaniyya of the Abbasid Caliphate, or a medieval army.
Well theoretically no, for the Umayyads and the Hafsun dynasty. Now, if by chance they are conquered, the work system will be exploited in the same way as it was by the Spanish.
Probably merges the Arabic and Romance cultural and linguistic aspects together, like middle English
As mentioned before, Andalusian Romance was very functional closer to castillan/italian than Arabic or other languages, if anything you could see evolving with elements of otl Portugese, but Arabic would still have the importance as the liturgical language and the common tongue of MENA
well the writing will be Arabic in nature (although Latin can remain as the second written form of the state). Regarding culture, certain Arab customs will be adopted, which I don't know. As a whole we will probably have a rise (or a reascension) of Visigothic culture (in addition to Greco-Roman culture). Together with the strengthening of Mozarabica culture.
Nivek posted a video a few pages before with a video of the Mozarabic language. It is basically weird Spanish.
OTL andalusian were able to deal with Vikes with the likes of greek fires and other tactics..some even settled and some even convert(the al-magus as they called them) become cheesemakers..dunno who ocuppy the north of the peninsula but ITTL both Andalusia and the mountain kingdoms will deal as OTL
This is still something that makes me laugh to this day.
Asturia had separated into other kingdoms like Leon for example. As far as I remember there was a truce when the Vikings arrived to deal with them.
