在后倭马亚王朝的经营下,安达卢斯成为了学术的灯塔,而首府科尔多瓦还成为了全地中海盆地、欧洲和伊斯兰世界最顶尖的经济及文化中心之一,兼欧洲最大城市。许多先进的伊斯兰和西方科学来自安达卢斯,例如伊本·弗纳斯(英语:Abbas Ibn Firnas)(Ibn Firnas)发明的第一款滑翔机,三角学、天文学、手术、药剂、农业学的其他成就,以及伊本·鲁世德的杰作。安达卢斯成为欧洲和地中海沿岸地区的主要教育中心,并成为伊斯兰世界和基督教世界之间进行文化和科学交流的渠道。 [7]
"Para los autores árabes medievales, el término al-Andalus designa la totalidad de las zonas conquistadas - siquiera temporalmente - por tropas arabo-musulmanas en territorios actualmente pertenecientes a Portugal, Espana y Francia" ("For the medieval Arab authors, al-Andalus designates all the conquered areas - even temporarily - by Arab-Muslim troops in territories now belonging to Portugal, Spain and France"), José Ángel García de Cortázar(西班牙语:José Ángel García de Cortázar), V Semana de Estudios Medievales: Nájera, 1 al 5 de agosto de 1994, Gobierno de La Rioja, Instituto de Estudios Riojanos, 1995, p.52.
"Los arabes y musulmanes de la Edad Media aplicaron el nombre de al-andalus a todas aquellas tierras que habian formado parte del reino visigodo : la Peninsula Ibérica y la Septimania ultrapirenaica." ("The Arabs and Muslims from the Middle Ages used t he name of al-Andalus to all those lands that were formerly part of the Visigothic kingdom: the Iberian Peninsula and Septimania"), Eloy Benito Ruano(西班牙语:Eloy Benito Ruano), Tópicos y realidades de la Edad Media, Real Academia de la Historia, 2000, p.79.
"Andalus, al-" Oxford Dictionary of Islam. John L. Esposito, Ed. Oxford University Press. 2003. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. Accessed 12 June 2006.
Bossong, Georg. Restle, David; Zaefferer, Dietmar , 编. Der Name al-Andalus: neue Überlegungen zu einem alten Problem [The Name al-Andalus: Revisiting an Old Problem](PDF). Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs. Sounds and systems: studies in structure and change. (Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton). 2002, 141: 149 [2020-04-22]. ISBN 978-3-11-089465-3. ISSN 1861-4302. (原始内容存档(PDF)于2008-06-27) (德语). Only a few years after the Islamic conquest of Spain, Al-Andalus appears in coin inscriptions as the Arabic equivalent of Hispania. The traditionally held view that the etymology of this name has to do with the Vandals is shown to have no serious foundation. The phonetic, morphosyntactic, and historical problems connected with this etymology are too numerous. Mo reover, the existence of this name in various parts of central and northern Spain proves that Al-Andalus cannot be derived from this Germanic tribe. It was the original name of the Punta Marroquí cape near Tarifa; very soon, it became generalized to designate the whole Peninsula. Undoubtedly, the name is of Pre-Indo-European origin. The parts of this compound (anda and luz) are frequent in the indigenous toponymy of the Iberian Peninsula.