Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Islam in Malta" in English language version.
Apart from the names Malta and Gozo, which probably have Latin roots, there is not a single place name in the Maltese Islands that can be proved to predate the Arab occupation.
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This is Malta's only mosque. Also the home of the Mariam al-Batool school.
Ibn Khaldun puts the expulsion of Islam from the Maltese Islands to the year 1249. It is not clear what happened then, except that the Maltese language, derived from Arabic, certainly survived. Either the number of Christians was far larger than Giliberto had indicated, and they already spoke Maltese or a large proportion of the Muslims themselves accepted baptism and stayed behind. Henri Bresc has written that there are indications of further Muslim political activity in Malta during the last Suabian years. Anyhow there is no doubt that by the beginning of Angevin's time, no professed Muslim Maltese remained either as free persons or even as serfs on the island.
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