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The Muslim Conquest of Iberia

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The Muslim Conquest of Iberia

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Medieval Arabic Narratives

The Muslim Conquest of Iberia

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The Muslim Conquest of Iberia book

Medieval Arabic Narratives
ByNicola Clarke
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2011
eBook Published 16 December 2011
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203180891
Pages 272
eBook ISBN 9780203180891
Subjects Area Studies, Humanities
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Clarke, N. (2011). The Muslim Conquest of Iberia: Medieval Arabic Narratives (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203180891

ABSTRACT

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |7 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|15 pages

Conceptualizing conquest: the late antique historiographical backdrop

chapter 2|24 pages

Successors, jurists, and propagandists: reconstructing the transmission history of Spanish conquest narratives

chapter 3|22 pages

Accommodating outsiders, obeying stereotypes: mawālī and muwalladūn in narratives of the conquest

chapter 4|15 pages

To the ends of the earth: extremes of east and west in Arabic geographical and ʿajāʾib writings

chapter 5|18 pages

The Table of Solomon: a historiographical motif and its functions

chapter 6|16 pages

Excusing and explaining conquest: traitors and collaborators in Muslim and Christian sources

chapter 7|29 pages

On the other side of the world: comparing narratives of contemporary Islamic conquests in the east

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