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A History of Early Al-Andalus - The Akhbar Majmu'a (Paperback)
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A History of Early Al-Andalus - The Akhbar Majmu'a (Paperback)
Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
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The Akhbar majmu'a, or 'Collected Accounts', deal with the Muslim
conquest of the Iberian peninsula in 711 and subsequent events in
al-Andalus, down to and including the reign of 'Abd al-Rahman III
(912-961), founder of the Umayyad caliphate of al-Andalus . No
Arabic text dealing with the early history of al-Andalus has
aroused more controversy, and its contents and origin have occupied
the attention of leading scholars of Islamic Spain since its
publication in 1867. This book gives the first complete English
translation of this key contemporary text, together with notes,
comments, appendices and maps. It is introduced by a survey of
scholarly opinion on the text from the nineteenth to the
twenty-first century in which all the - often heated - arguments
around the text are explained. The translator concludes his
introduction with an in-depth examination of the manuscript
containing the only surviving copy of the text and presents some
interesting new evidence provided by scribe which has gone
unnoticed until now. Providing new insights into this significant
Arabic text, this book will be of great interest to scholars of the
history of Spain and Portugal, Islamic history, and Mediaeval
European history.
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