Interaction of Muslim Arabs with the local population in the Maghreb (50-92 AH / 670-710 AD)

Abstract

The Muslim Arabs began to think seriously to set out for the Maghreb after the conquest of Egypt in the year (20 AH / 640 AD) at the hands of the leader Amr ibn al-Aas, who believed that the departure towards the Maghreb was a necessary step to secure the western borders of Egypt and protect it from the attacks that might be exposed to it. By the Byzantine forces, then controlling all the lands west of Egypt, this idea was the first and essential step in the Arab conquest of the Maghreb. Some of them divided it into seven stages according to the leaders who took up the jihad there, and some of them divided it into two stages, according to the nature of the conquest in each stage. (50-92 AH/670-710AD).During the research, we tried to reveal the most important principles that the Arab field leaders dealt with towards the local population, during the organized conquests and stability operations that began since the second mandate of Uqba bin Nafeh in the year (50 AH / 670 AD), and we will address the topic of research according to the historical sequence of the governors of Morocco.