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The Muslim Conquest of Iberia - Medieval Arabic Narratives (Paperback)
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The Muslim Conquest of Iberia - Medieval Arabic Narratives (Paperback)
Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
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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.
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