The policy of integrating migrating Turkish tribes into newly captured areas was not used in those regions where the population was mainly Arab, but a society did form where the ruling class was Turkish. In time local officials and soldiers became integrated into local life, some even married local women, giving rise to a new class, Kuloğlu, especially in the Maghreb. In these, the farthest lands of the empire, the influence of al-Andalus was quite remarkable.