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1 online resource (273 pages) |
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Culture and Civilization in the Middle East |
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Culture and civilisation in the Middle East.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; List of authors and rulers; Introduction; The conquest of Iberia: outline of events; 1 Conceptualizing conquest: the late antique historiographical backdrop; The rise of providential history; The coming of Islam; Iberian models and Islam; Conclusion; 2 Successors, jurists, and propagandists: reconstructing the transmission history of Spanish conquest narratives; Seeking origins, or problems in Islamic historiography; Egypt: legends, law, and loot; Isnād extrapolation and the question of the tābiʻūn |
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The Cordoban Umayyads and issues of land ownership3 Accommodating outsiders, obeying stereotypes: mawālī and muwalladūn in narratives of the conquest; Walāʼ: accommodating outsiders and reinforcing hierarchy; How walāʼ operated in early Islamic society; Non-Arabs in al-Andalus: mawālī and muwalladūn; Mawālī in the conquest narratives; Conclusion; 4 To the ends of the earth: extremes of east and west in Arabic geographical and ʻajāʼib writings; The view from Baghdad: aspects of medieval Muslim geography; Expressing conceptual boundaries: distinguishing internal from external; Liminal spaces |
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Constructing al-Andalus5 The Table of Solomon: a historiographical motif and its functions; The Temple of Jerusalem and its artistic and historiographical afterlife; Royal treasure hoards and the question of Visigothic legitimacy; Solomon's Table in the Muslim historiographical tradition; Conclusion; 6 Excusing and explaining conquest: traitors and collaborators in Muslim and Christian sources; Literary devices in historical writing; Traitor type 1: the plot device; Traitor type 2: the rogue insider; Traitor type 3: the romantic antihero; Traitor type 4: the disaffected faction; Conclusion |
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7 On the other side of the world: comparing narratives of contemporary Islamic conquests in the eastThe basic stories of the eastern narratives; Texts for the eastern narratives; The major themes of the eastern narratives; Conclusion: points of correspondence; Conclusion: history on the margins; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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. 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 |
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Print version record |
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Muslims -- Spain -- History -- Early works to 1800
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Manuscripts, Arabic -- Spain
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Manuscripts, Arabic -- Africa, North
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Spain & Portugal.
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Historiography
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Manuscripts, Arabic
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Muslims
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Spain -- History -- 711-1516 -- Early works to 1800
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Spain -- History -- 711-1516 -- Historiography
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North Africa
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Spain
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Early works
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136588204 |
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1136588205 |
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