ABSTRACT
The Muslim Settlement of Spania/al-Andalus 3
biographical works (with works such as those by Ibn I:Iarith al-Khushan1, Ibn al-Fara<;II, al-Malik1 and al-Dabbagh providing a great deal of information on the topic) ;9 and belles-lettres (in which the episodes of the expansion are adorned with the appropriate aesthetic and entertaining finery, though not exempt from the usual ideological baggage, which is here quite marked).10
