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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