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Also by the time that the Emirate of Cordoba broke off from the Umayyad caliphate the Emirs of Cordoba have been born in Spain for the last ~7 generations, intermingling with the local population, mostly Christian concubines. By the time it turned into the Caliphate of Cordoba the Calpih, Abd-ar-Rahman III was described as the following:In fact, he was the nephew of the Queen of Navarre. The first Emir of Cordoba was also the son of a Berber concubine. Yeah, I get it "le arab rape train" but that is so far from the truth. There's a reason they're called moors and not arabs, by the time the reconquista came along you could hardly tell the difference between the Moorish lords and the Christian lords due to them basically having interbred for over 400 years.white skin, blue eyes and attractive face; good looking, although somewhat sturdy and stout