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The Muslim Conquest of Iberia - Medieval Arabic Narratives (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,647
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The Muslim Conquest of Iberia - Medieval Arabic Narratives (Hardcover): Nicola Clarke

The Muslim Conquest of Iberia - Medieval Arabic Narratives (Hardcover)

Nicola Clarke

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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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
Release date: December 2011
First published: 2012
Authors: Nicola Clarke
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-67320-4
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > Historiography
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > History > European history > General
Books > History > Theory & methods > Historiography
Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500
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LSN: 0-415-67320-8
Barcode: 9780415673204

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