Arab Conquerors and the Spread of Islam in al-ifrighiyyah

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After the conquest of Egypt in the year 22 A.H. by Amr lbn-al-As, Ifrighiyyah came to the center of Arab conquerors' attention. Ifrighiyyah was conquered in the year 90 by Musa-bn-i Nusayr. As Islam entered this area towards the end of the 1st century A.H., there was great political, social and cultural change among the Berber inhabitants of this Iand, they adopting various attitudes vis-ب-vis the Muslim conquerors and then governors.
The effect Arab conquerors' treatment of the people had on the Berber tribes in obeying them and in the Berber conversion to Islam until the complete conquest of North Africa by the Muslims is the subject of this article.