Editing Arabization (section)

===Al-Andalus===
After the [[Umayyad conquest of Hispania]], under the [[Arab]] [[Al-Andalus|Muslim rule]] Iberia (''al-Andalus'') incorporated elements of Arabic language and culture. The [[Mozarab]]s were [[Iberian Peninsula|Iberian]] [[Christians]] who lived under Arab Islamic rule in [[Al-Andalus]]. Their descendants remained unconverted to [[Islam]], but did however adopt elements of Arabic language and [[Arab culture|culture]] and dress. They were mostly [[Roman Catholics]] of the [[Mozarabic Rite|Visigothic or Mozarabic Rite]]. Most of the Mozarabs were descendants of [[Hispania|Hispano]]–[[Visigoths|Gothic]] Christians and were primarily speakers of the [[Mozarabic language]] under Islamic rule. Many were also what the [[Arabist]] Mikel de Epalza calls ''"Neo-Mozarabs"'', that is [[Northern Europe]]ans who had come to the Iberian Peninsula and picked up Arabic, thereby entering the Mozarabic community.

Besides Mozarabs, another group of people in Iberia eventually came to surpass the Mozarabs both in terms of population and Arabization. These were the Muladi or [[Muwallad]]un, most of whom were descendants of local Hispano-Basques and Visigoths who converted to Islam and adopted Arabic culture, dress, and language. By the 11th century, most of the population of al-Andalus was Muladi, with large minorities of other Muslims, Mozarabs, and [[Sephardic Jews]]. It was the Muladi, together with the Berber, Arab, and other ([[Saqaliba]] and [[Zanj]]) Muslims who became collectively termed in Christian Europe as "[[Moors]]".

The [[Andalusian Arabic]] was spoken in Iberia during Islamic rule.