ABSTRACT
This chapter surveys research on the ideology of the Cordoban Umayyads and discusses possible links between the Maliki school of law and Umayyad ideology in al-Andalus. The image of the amirs Hisham I (r. 788–96 ce) and al-Hakam I (r. 796–822) in the chronicle of Ibn al-Qutiyya (d. 977) serves as an example of the construction of Umayyad caliphal ideology by presenting a close and intricate link between the Umayyad dynasty and Maliki jurists. At the same time, the importance of Malikism to the official historiography results in a strong ideological bias in Ibn al-Qutiyya and other caliphal sources, complicating analysis of the relation between this madhhab and the Cordoban Umayyads.
