ABSTRACT
The confusion surrounding the territorial and political-administrative division of Muslim Spain is evident, despite the clarification of several points made in Dr. ~usayn Mu'nis' recent article.2 In fact, Levi-Provenc;al himself noted3 that very little is known with any precision on the subject, due, in good part, to the lack of texts specifically [24] devoted to the question and also-it must be added-to the fact that the information provided by the geographers, chroniclers and authors of Muslim biographical repertories is sometimes contradictory. These factors and the desire to see the division and organisation of the territory of the Cordoban state as something appreciably uniform have meant that the hoped-for answers to this problem have not been found, which is why I have been induced to write these lines.
