The Muslim Conquest Of Iberia

Author : Hussein Fancy,Alejandro García-Sanjuán
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000385083

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What Was the Islamic Conquest of Iberia? by Hussein Fancy,Alejandro García-Sanjuán Pdf

What Was the Islamic Conquest of Iberia? Understanding the New Debate brings together leading scholars to offer an introduction to a recent debate with far-reaching implications for the study of history, as well as our understanding of the present. In the year 711 CE, Islamic armies conquered the Iberian Peninsula. This seemingly uncontroversial claim has in fact been questioned, becoming an object of intense scholarly debate, debate that has reached a fevered pitch in recent decades within Spain. This volume introduces an anglophone audience to the terms and contours of this controversy, from its emergence in the late nineteenth century to its contemporary recrudescence. It suggests that far from an abstract discussion, this dispute reveals methodological and moral questions that remain vital to the study of the distant past, questions than cannot be easily resolved and have far-reaching consequences for the present. This volume offers novel perspectives on, not only the controversy, but also the latest research on the events of 711. These exemplary studies of historical, literary, and material cultural evidence demonstrate the promise and challenges for a new generation of scholarship. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies.

Author : Nicola Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136588198

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The Muslim Conquest of Iberia by Nicola Clarke Pdf

Medieval Islamic society set great store by the transmission of history: to edify, argue legal points, explain present conditions, offer political and religious legitimacy, and entertain. Modern scholars, too, have had much to say about the usefulness of early Islamic history-writing, although this debate has traditionally focused overwhelmingly on the central Islamic lands. This book looks instead at local and regional history-writing in Medieval Iberia. Drawing on numerous Arabic texts – historical, geographical and biographical – composed and transmitted in al-Andalus, North Africa and the Islamic east between the ninth and fourteenth centuries, Nicola Clarke offers a nuanced and detailed analysis of narratives about the eighth-century Muslim conquest of Iberia. Comparing how individual episodes, characters, and themes are treated in different texts, and how this treatment relates to intellectual debates, literary trends, and socio-political conditions at the time of writing, she shows how competing priorities shaped myriad variations on a single story and how the scholars and patrons of a corner of the Islamic world distant from Baghdad viewed their own history. Offering a framework in which historians of Christian Iberia (and of Christian Europe more generally) can approach and make sense of culturally-significant texts from Muslim Iberia, this book will also be relevant to broader debates about the historiography of early Islam. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars of historiography, world history and Islamic studies.

Author : Shahnaz Husain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Andalusia (Spain)
ISBN : 184200039X

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The Muslim Conquest of Spain and the Legacy of Al-Andalus by Shahnaz Husain Pdf

Author : Nicola Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415673204

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The Muslim Conquest of Iberia by Nicola Clarke Pdf

This is a historiography of western Muslim writers on the subject of the eighth century conquest of the Iberian peninsula. It examines the distinct cultural and political significance of historical narratives from the ninth through the fourteenth centuries.

Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134985838

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Routledge Library Editions: Muslim Spain by Various Pdf

This three-volume set of previously out-of-print titles closely examines three key aspects of Muslim Spain: the Muslim conquest and settlement, together with its political and economic administration; spirituality in the region; and El Cid and the Spanish reconquest. Together they form an important overview of the period and the region.

Author : ʻAbd al-Wāḥid Dhannūn Ṭāhā
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0415004748

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The Muslim Conquest and Settlement of North Africa and Spain by ʻAbd al-Wāḥid Dhannūn Ṭāhā Pdf

Author : Dario Fernandez-Morera
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684516292

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The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise by Dario Fernandez-Morera Pdf

A finalist for World Magazine's Book of the Year! Scholars, journalists, and even politicians uphold Muslim-ruled medieval Spain—"al-Andalus"—as a multicultural paradise, a place where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived in harmony. There is only one problem with this widely accepted account: it is a myth. In this groundbreaking book, Northwestern University scholar Darío Fernández-Morera tells the full story of Islamic Spain. The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise shines light on hidden history by drawing on an abundance of primary sources that scholars have ignored, as well as archaeological evidence only recently unearthed. This supposed beacon of peaceful coexistence began, of course, with the Islamic Caliphate's conquest of Spain. Far from a land of religious tolerance, Islamic Spain was marked by religious and therefore cultural repression in all areas of life and the marginalization of Christians and other groups—all this in the service of social control by autocratic rulers and a class of religious authorities. The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise provides a desperately needed reassessment of medieval Spain. As professors, politicians, and pundits continue to celebrate Islamic Spain for its "multiculturalism" and "diversity," Fernández-Morera sets the historical record straight—showing that a politically useful myth is a myth nonetheless.

Author : Jocelyn Hendrickson
Publisher : Harvard Series in Islamic Law
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0674248201

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Leaving Iberia by Jocelyn Hendrickson Pdf

Leaving Iberia examines Islamic legal responses to Muslims living under Christian rule in medieval and early modern Iberia and North Africa, links the juristic discourses on conquered Muslims on both sides of the Mediterranean, and adds a significant chapter to the story of Christian-Muslim relations in the medieval Mediterranean.

Author : David James
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134025312

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Early Islamic Spain by David James Pdf

Including maps, an extensive introduction and notes and commentary by the translator, Early Islamic Spain is the first English language translation of the important history of Islamic Spain by Ibn al-Qutiyyah, one of the earliest and significant histories of Muslim Spain and an important source for scholars.

Author : 'Abdulwāhid Dḥanūn Ṭāha
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000639360

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The Muslim Conquest and Settlement of North Africa and Spain by 'Abdulwāhid Dḥanūn Ṭāha Pdf

In the seventh and eighth centuries, the Muslim Arabs conquered large areas of North Africa and then, with the help of their former adversaries in North Africa, the Berbers, gained a decisive victory over the Visigoths in Spain. This book, first published in 1989 and based on Arabic and other sources, describes the process of conquest and settlement, first depicting the lack of unity in North Africa and the corruption and insolvency in Spain that made the advance possible. It provides an invaluable classification of the Arab and Berber settlers in Spain by tribal origin, area of settlement and time of entry. The book emphasises throughout the importance of the economic and administrative relationship between North Africa and Spain. It charts the growing resentment of the early settlers in Spain with the restrictions on their autonomy imposed by the Governor-General of North Africa and the caliphate. It describes the rising tensions between old and new settlers and between the different tribal groups, finally leading to the Berber revolt and Abdulrahman’s consolidation of power towards the end of the Umayyad caliphate.

Author : Eloy Martín-Corrales
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004443761

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Muslims in Spain, 1492-1814 by Eloy Martín-Corrales Pdf

In Muslims in Spain, 1492-1814: Living and Negotiating in the Land of the Infidel, Eloy Martín-Corrales surveys Hispano-Muslim relations from the late fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, a period of chronic hostilities. Nonetheless there were thousands of Muslims in Spain at that time: ambassadors, exiles, merchants, converts, and travelers. Their negotiating strategies, and the necessary support they found on both shores of the Mediterranean prove that relations between Spaniards and Muslims were based on reasons of state and on a pragmatism that generated intense political and economic ties.These increased enormously after the peace treaties that Spain signed with Muslim countries between 1767 and 1791.

Author : Roger Collins
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1995-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780631194057

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The Arab Conquest of Spain by Roger Collins Pdf

This book, now available in paperback, is a challenging and controversial account of the history of Spain in the eighth century. In it Roger Collins assesses the political and cultural impact on Spain of the first hundred years of Arab rule, focusing upon aspects of continuity and discontinuity with Visigoth Spain.

Author : Hugh Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317870401

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Muslim Spain and Portugal by Hugh Kennedy Pdf

This is the first study in English of the political history of Muslim Spain and Portugal, based on Arab sources. It provides comprehensive coverage of events across the whole of the region from 711 to the fall of Granada in 1492. Up till now the history of this region has been badly neglected in comparison with studies of other states in medieval Europe. When considered at all, it has been largely written from Christian sources and seen in terms of the Christian Reconquest. Hugh Kennedy raises the profile of this important area, bringing the subject alive with vivid translations from Arab sources. This will be fascinating reading for historians of medieval Europe and for historians of the middle east drawing out the similarities and contrasts with other areas of the Muslim world.

Author : Frank Peters
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780199806256

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Muslim Spain: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide by Frank Peters Pdf

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. A reader will discover, for instance, the most reliable introductions and overviews to the topic, and the most important publications on various areas of scholarly interest within this topic. In Islamic studies, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Islamic Studies, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of the Islamic religion and Muslim cultures. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.aboutobo.com.

Author : Christina Civantos
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438466712

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The Afterlife of al-Andalus by Christina Civantos Pdf

The first study to undertake a wide-ranging comparison of invocations of al-Andalus across the the Arab and Hispanic worlds. Around the globe, concerns about interfaith relations have led to efforts to find earlier models in Muslim Iberia (al-Andalus). This book examines how Muslim Iberia operates as an icon or symbol of identity in twentieth and twenty-first century narrative, drama, television, and film from the Arab world, Spain, and Argentina. Christina Civantos demonstrates how cultural agents in the present ascribe importance to the past and how dominant accounts of this importance are contested. Civantos’s analysis reveals that, alongside established narratives that use al-Andalus to create exclusionary, imperial identities, there are alternate discourses about the legacy of al-Andalus that rewrite the traditional narratives. In the process, these discourses critique their imperial and gendered dimensions and pursue intercultural translation. Christina Civantos is Associate Professor of Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami and the author of Between Argentines and Arabs: Argentine Orientalism, Arab Immigrants, and the Writing of Identity, also published by SUNY Press.