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During the second half of the 10th/4th century, the Umayyad
caliphate of al-Andalus became a powerful political formation in
Western Europe. Described by the contemporary German nun Hrotsvitha
as the 'ornament of the world', Cordoba was the destiny of
embassies and traders coming from places as far away as
Constantinople, the Ottoman empire and Italy. The zenith of this
political supremacy coincided with the rule of al-Hakam II (961-976
CE), whose name is associated with the enlargement of the mosque of
Cordoba, the magnificent palatine city of Madinat al-Zahra' and the
rich caliphal library which housed Arab, Latin and Hebrew
manuscripts. This book is based on an extraordinary source that had
never been the subject of a comprehensive study: the annals written
by an official and chronicler of the caliph's court, 'Isa b. Ahmad
al-Razi, who carefully annotated the big and small events of the
court. Used by Ibn Hayyan to compose one of the volumes of his
celebrated Muqtabis, these 'annals' have come to us in a
substantial fragment of more than 135 folia that cover the period
from June 971 to July 975 CE. This source provides an eye-witness
account of the caliphate, which describes with stunning detail all
the events, characters, places and narratives of the Umayyad
caliphate, and is a fundamental work in helping us to understand
the configuration of the Mediterranean in the 10th century CE.
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