Ṭāriq ibn Ziyād (Arabic: طارق بن زياد), also known simply as Tarik in English, was an Umayyad commander who initiated the Muslim conquest of Visigothic...

agentive conjugated doer form طارق‎, (ṭāriq), meaning "striker". It became popular as a name after Tariq ibn Ziyad, a Muslim military leader who conquered...

the caliphate of the sixth Umayyad caliph, al-Walid I (r. 705–715), Tariq ibn Ziyad departed from North Africa in early 711 across the Straits of Gibraltar...

Ziyad (Arabic: زياد, romanized: Ziyād; also spelled Ziad, Zyad, Zeyad, or Zijad) is an Arabic given name and surname. Zeyad Errafae'ie, Syrian television...

Caliphate, composed mainly of Berbers and some Arabs under the commander Tariq ibn Ziyad. The battle was significant as the culmination of a series of Berber...

See the article on Tariq bin Ziyad for more details of the supposed disagreements, accounts of which vary considerably. Ibn Abd al-Hakam, p. 212-213...

Tarif ibn Malik (Arabic: طريف بن مالك) was a commander under Tariq ibn Ziyad, Muslim and Umayyad general who led the conquest of Visigothic Hispania in...

invited Tariq ibn-Ziyad to invade southern Spain because his daughter had been raped by King Roderick. On April 30, 711, Muslim General Tariq ibn-Ziyad landed...

raids they conquered Visigothic Christian Hispania. Their general, Tariq ibn Ziyad, brought most of Iberia under Islamic rule in an eight-year campaign...

full-scale conquest did not begin until April of 711, when an army led by Tariq ibn Ziyad crossed the narrow channel that separated southern Hispania from North...