Disclaimer: I don’t know if this is necessary but there is absolutely no racist intent behind this post.

I was reading up on moors here, the main Wikipedia article about them. They were mainly Berbers, who are North Africans and not typically dark skinned. But I then came across this quote by Ibn Hazam:

All the Caliphs of the Banu Marwan (God have mercy on their souls!), and especially the sons of al-Nasir, were without variation or exception disposed by nature to prefer blondes. I have myself seen them, and known others who had seen their forebears, from the days of al-Nasir's reign down to the present day; every one of them has been fair-haired, taking after their mothers, so that this has become a hereditary trait with them; all but Sulaiman al-Zafir (God have mercy on him!), whom I remember to have had black ringlets and a black beard. As for al-Nasir and al-Hakam al-Mustansir (may God be pleased with them!), I have been informed by my late father, the vizier, as well as by others, that both of them were blond and blue-eyed. The same is true of Hisham al-Mu'aiyad, Muhammad al-Mahdi, and `Abd al-Rahman al-Murtada (may God be merciful to them all!); I saw them myself many times, and had the honour of being received by them, and I remarked that they all had fair hair and blue eyes.

Now the reason I’m asking this question is because when you google Moors, they’re depicted as black in almost every painting.

Even if you disregard the quote above, neither Arabs nor Berbers are this dark skinned, and the moors who conquered Iberia were probably a mixture of the two.

So yeah. Just wanted an explanation for this seeming irregularity.

Thanks.