The Akhb?r majm 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-Rahm?n 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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