• 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • agentive conjugated doer form طارق‎, (ṭāriq), meaning "striker". It became popular as a name after Tariq ibn Ziyad, a Muslim military leader who conquered...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • footballer Ziyad Tariq Aziz Brisam, Iraqi football defender Ziyad al-Kord, Palestinian footballer Ziyad al-Sahafi, Saudi Arabian footballer Ziyad al-Johani...
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    commander Tariq ibn Ziyad. Musá ibn Nusayr was the governor of Northern Africa under the caliph of that period, and it was he who ordered Tariq to make...
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    to its Naval Base Karachi on 18 November 1993. She was named after Tariq ibn Ziyad, the commander who led the Umayyad conquest of Visigothic Hispania...
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