muladi in a sentence

1. The Muladi: Christians who converted to Islam after the arrival of the Moors.

2. The Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan words muladí, muladi or muladita are derived from the Arabic muwallad.

3. Prominent positions in government and society were usually not available to individuals of Muladi descent.

4. In addition, many Muladi were also descended from Saqaliba (Slavic) slaves taken from Eastern Europe via the Arab slave trade.

5. The muladíes (Muslims of ethnic Iberian origin) are believed to have comprised the majority of the population of Al-Andalus by the end of the 10th century.

6. In the 10th century a massive conversion of Christians took place, so that muladies comprised the majority of the population of Al-Andalus by the century's end.

7. "Muladi" has been offered as one of the possible etymological origins of the still-current Spanish and Portuguese term Mulatto, denoting a person of white and black ancestry.

8. Through the cultural Arabization of muladies and their increasing inter-marriage with some Berbers and Arabs present in Iberia, the distinctions between the different Muslim groups became increasingly blurred in the 11th and 12th centuries.