在後倭馬亞王朝的經營下,安達魯斯成為了學術的燈塔,而首府哥多華還成為了全地中海盆地、歐洲和伊斯蘭世界最頂尖的經濟及文化中心之一,兼歐洲最大城市。許多先進的伊斯蘭和西方科學來自安達魯斯,例如伊本·弗納斯(英語:Abbas Ibn Firnas)(Ibn Firnas)發明的第一款滑翔機,三角學、天文學、手術、藥劑、農業學的其他成就,以及伊本·魯世德的傑作。安達魯斯成為歐洲和地中海沿岸地區的主要教育中心,並成為伊斯蘭世界和基督教世界之間進行文化和科學交流的渠道。 [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(西班牙語: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(西班牙語: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 , 編. 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. (原始內容存檔(PDF)於2008-06-27) (德語). 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.