| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 243 pages) |
| Series |
Culture and Civilization in the Middle East, 30 |
|
Culture and civilisation in the Middle East ; 30
|
| 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 -- Isnad extrapolation and the question of the tabi'un -- The Cordoban Umayyads and issues of land ownership -- 3. Accommodating outsiders, obeying stereotypes: mawali and muwalladun in narratives of the conquest -- Wala': accommodating outsiders and reinforcing hierarchy -- How wala' operated in early Islamic society -- Non-Arabs in al-Andalus: mawali and muwalladun -- Mawali in the conquest narratives -- Conclusion -- 4. To the ends of the earth: extremes of east and west in Arabic geographical and 'aja'ib writings -- The view from Baghdad: aspects of medieval Muslim geography -- Expressing conceptual boundaries: distinguishing internal from external -- Liminal spaces -- Constructing al-Andalus -- 5. 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 -- 7. On the other side of the world: comparing narratives of contemporary Islamic conquests in the east -- The 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. 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Manuscripts, Arabic -- Africa, North
|
|
Manuscripts, Arabic -- Spain
|
|
Muslims -- Spain -- Historiography
|
|
Muslims -- Spain -- History -- Early works to 1800
|
|
HISTORY -- Historiography.
|
|
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
|
|
Historiography.
|
|
Manuscripts, Arabic.
|
|
Muslims -- Historiography.
|
|
Muslims.
|
|
Spain -- History -- 711-1516 -- Early works to 1800
|
|
Spain -- History -- 711-1516 -- Historiography
|
|
North Africa.
|
|
Spain.
|
| Genre/Form |
Early works.
|
|
History.
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| LC no. |
2011022788 |
| ISBN |
0203180895 |
|
0415673208 |
|
1136588191 |
|
1136588205 |
|
1283520699 |
|
9780203180891 |
|
9780415673204 |
|
9781136588198 |
|
9781136588204 |
|
9781283520690 |
|
