WThe term Moor is an exonym first used by Christian Europeans to designate the Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, and Malta during the Middle Ages. The Moors initially were the indigenous Maghrebine Berbers. The name was later also applied to Arabs and Arabized Iberians.
WAl-Andalus was the Umayyad-ruled Iberian Peninsula. The term is used by modern historians for the former Islamic states in Iberia. At its greatest geographical extent, its territory occupied most of the peninsula and a part of present-day southern France, Septimania, and for nearly a century extended its control from Fraxinet over the Alpine passes which connect Italy to Western Europe. The name more specifically describes the different Arab or Berber states that controlled these territories at various times between 711 and 1492, though the boundaries changed constantly as the Christian Reconquista progressed, eventually shrinking to the south and finally to the vassalage of the Emirate of Granada.
WMoorish architecture, is a style within Islamic architecture which developed in the western Islamic world, which included al-Andalus, Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. The term "Moorish" comes from the Western European designation of the Muslim inhabitants of these regions as "Moors", which itself comes from Latin "Mauri", originally a designation of the inhabitants of the kingdom of Mauretania. Some scholars also use the term Western Islamic architecture or "architecture of the Islamic west" for this subject.
WBerbers or Imazighen are an ethnic group native to North Africa and West Africa, specifically Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Mauritania, northern Mali, northern Niger and the Canary Islands. Smaller Berber populations are also found in Burkina Faso and Egypt's Siwa Oasis.
WBlackamoor is a European art style from the Early Modern period depicting highly stylized figures. Blackamoor is often found in sculpture, jewelry, furniture, and decorative art.
WA Mappila, also known as a Mappila Muslim, formerly anglicized as Moplah/Mopla, is a member of the Muslim community of the same name found predominantly in Kerala, southern India. Mappilas share the common language of Malayalam with the other communities of Kerala.
WMarakkar/Maricar/Marikkar (Sinhalese: Marakkala), is a South Asian Muslim community found in parts of Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and in Sri Lanka. The Marakkars speak Tamil in Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka and Malayalam in Kerala. The community claim ancestry from marriages between early Arab Muslim traders of the high seas and indigenous womens women in India and indigenous Mukkuvar coastal women in Sri Lanka.
WThe history of Moorish Gibraltar began with the landing of the Muslims in Hispania and the fall of the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo in 711 and ended with the fall of Gibraltar to Christian hands 751 years later, in 1462, with an interregnum during the early 14th century.
WThe Moorish Science Temple of America is an American national and religious organization founded by Noble Drew Ali. He based it on the premise that African Americans are descendants of the Moabites and thus are "Moorish" by nationality, and Islamic by faith. Ali put together elements of major traditions to develop a message of personal transformation through historical education, racial pride and spiritual uplift. His doctrine was also intended to provide African Americans with a sense of identity in the world and to promote civic involvement.
WRoman-Africans were the ancient Northwest African populations of Roman North Africa that had a Romanized culture and used to speak their own variety of Latin as a result. They existed mostly from the Roman conquest in the antiquity until their language gradually faded out after the Arab conquest of North Africa in the Early Middle Ages.