A History of Muslims in France

In Middle Ages, Muslims were living in Southwestern France for more than eighty years, and even maintained diplomatic relations with Christian political leaders of the time. Interview with Philippe Senac, University Professor, who evokes the settlement of Muslims in the south west of France during the 8th century AD, their progression in France, before being repelled by Charles Martel, and the relations between the Frankish Princes and the Arab kings. Professor Pierre Guichard explains that the Arabs entered the region around 720 and refers to the symbolic aspect of the battle of Poitiers in 732. Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Great Mosque of Paris, evokes the invasion of the ‘Narbonnaise’ by Muslims.