Crusader Spanish Policy Towards Al- Maghreb After the Fall of Granada from 1492- 1504 A. D. (897- 910 AH)

Abstract

The Spanish policy towards Islamic Maghreb countries represented

an important series of the Christian- Muslim conflict in the structure of the

ancient Crusades Wars. The Spanish root- goals in the Maghreb countries

refer to the early eras of that history of the conflict, but their echoes were soon

carried out on the ground after the weakness and collapse of the Almohad

State in Al- Andalus and Maghreb countries at beginning of the 13th A. D.

The aggressive policy reached its climax when the Spaniards eliminated

the Islamic rule in Al- Andalus after the collapse of Granada in 1492 A. D. Thus,

the way became so easy to shift the conflict to the Maghreb countries under

the auspices of the papacy and direct supervision of the Spanish religious and

political establishments to control the Maghreb countries and to evangelize

its people. The colonialists had other political and economic ambitions, and

so they controlled the two towns of Melilla and Ghasasa, which formed the

climax of the Spanish colonial achievements in the Maghreb countries, and

used them as a foothold to launch and control the rest of the coastal areas

during the 16th century.