Pyrenees Emirate

Is an established Emirate in the Pyrenees and further North possible in the Middle Ages ? Could Christian convert nobles and Berber/Arab invaders establish a Mozarabic Islamic Emirate ?
 
Possible. Yes. Easy. No.

In all honesty, going further north is hard without the mass conversion of a large number of the Spanish/Visigothic peoples of the Iberian peninsula, as the Caliphate only surged so far based on the additional manpower provided by the Berber peoples (and Egypt for that matter). Going further north will need another pool of manpower in the region. That would allow the Iberians to push north against the Franks. Now, this doesn't guarantee anything, but it would allow the establishment of an Emirate. Berber settlement could certainly help establish control and a cultural element.

In reality though, you'd need the Franks to fall apart at the right time, rather than consolidate at the right time - that way there is not strong, organised opposition - enabling the Emirate to establish roots, and decent fortifications.
 
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