A History of Early Al-Andalus : The Akhbar Majmu'a

ISBN-13: 9780415669436 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 208 str.

David James

Opis

The Akhbar majmu'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-Rahman 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.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Akhbār majmū‘a: Study and Speculation.  Translation: The Akhbār majmū‘a.  ‘Collected Accounts’ of the years 86-350/705-961  1. The Conquest and the Rule of the Governors of Damascus  2. The Civil Wars  3. The Annals of ‘Abd al-Rahmān I  4. Scenes from the Lives of the Umayyad Emirs  5. The Caliph of al-Andalus  Appendix i: Introductory Words, Phases and Headings given in Coloured Thulth and their Location in Lafuente y Alcántara (1867), Arabic text, page number and line.  Appendix ii: The Governors (wālin pl. wulāh) of al-Andalus.  Appendix iii: Mā’idat Sulaymān, the ‘Table of Solomon’: What was it?

O autorze

David James was Special Lecturer in Arabic Studies at University College Dublin, where he taught a course on Islamic Spain. He is the author of Early Islamic Spain, The History of Ibn al-Qūtīya and several books on the art of the Islamic manuscript.