Johannes
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There's several possible historical accounts explaining how Islam made it to the Iberian peninsula, one of them is about one of these Visigothic factions inviting the Muslims to intervene in favor of their struggles with other Visigoths in the peninsula. But whether a direct invitation is true or not, the fact is that some Visigothic factions did support these newcomers once they had gained a foothold in Iberia and even started converting to their religion. So directly or indirectly the Visigoths played a key role in the presence of Islam in the Iberian Peninsula.
There are only two versions of the events as we know it: 1) The Muslim version that states that "the Will of God" caused the victory (and is not to be trusted); and 2) The Chronicle of 785 that gives "reasons" for the events from the Gothic side. The Chronicle accuses the Goths of fighting among themselves and of becoming corrupt but it uses typical Christian imagery about "the sins of man (the Goths)" as the main causes the disaster. This is typical Christian BS and is not to be trusted.
There was never any Visigothic "faction" that invited and willing aided the Muslims. That's even more BS. What we can infer from the sources (by the use of reason) is that the party of Witiza invited some count from North Africa (no one knows if he was Byzantine or Goth) to bring a Berber Army and that during the battle the party of Witiza would betray the King and leave the field. Once the King was defeated it was understood that the Berbers and the "count" would be paid off and everything would be OK. But the Berber leader Tarik knew that the Jews were a fifth column and would help conquer the cities of Seville and Cordoba. This is what caused the Berbers to continue on with their conquests. The Berbers would never had succeeded had it not been for the Jews who opened the gates of Cordoba and Seville, became their guides, and garrisoned the captured cities. After the Jews helped open the gates of the cities the bewildered population gave up without a fight or it caused a massive panic of the populations who began to desert the cities and move north. Even Tarik was astonished when he arrived to find Toledo completely empty of all citizens. Some Goths resisted (for example, Achila the principal traitor was certainly killed and Count Pelayo defeated the Muslims in Covadonga) and many made treaties. But since there were no telephones or TV's at that time by the time the news reached certain cities it was too late -- therefore it explains the "deals" or treaties made by the surviving Goths and Muslims. if you look at the map the only areas "conquered " by the Muslims were the areas ruled by King Roderik and Duke Achila and all the rest of the retainers. The Center and Northwest were never conquered.
Thus the only ones who hated the Goths were the Jews because the Gothic kings had threatened to enslave them if they did not convert. If you bother to read more than one book it clearly states that, yes, in the beginning the Goths were unpopular only because they were originally a barbarian nation (and they looked very different) and practiced the Arian form of Christianity. But when King Reccared converted the Goths and Swabians into Catholicism then they were not hated any more (or at least there is no evidence that they were hated). All this you read about the supposed "unpopularity" of the Goths is pure speculation by historians who have traditionally been biased towards the Goths. In fact, I read a journal during the 1990's that studied the names of people from the Iberian peninsula and the vast majority had Germanic names right before the conquest. Then after the conquest they changed to Christian ones. This clearly shows that the Goths were not hated or unpopular. I can go further in stating that during the 8-9th centuries the Muslims were clearly unpopular as is shown with the many Christian martyrs in Andalusia. In fact the Muslims had a lot of difficulty controlling the regions they had tricked into submission until the reign of Rahman II. After that the Iberians began to convert en masse not because they loved their Muslim rulers but because of great frustration of not being liberated and of economic advancement and avoidance of the head tax.