The Routledge Handbook of Muslim Iberia

ISBN-13: 9781138649149 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 816 str.

Maribel Fierro

Opis

This handbook offers an overview of the main issues regarding the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual and artistic history of the Iberian Peninsula during the period of Muslim rule (8^th-15^th centuries).

Spis treści

Introduction. Maribel Fierro  PART I. Rulers  1. The Iberian Peninsula before the Muslim conquest. Iñaki Martín Viso  2. The conquerors and the formation of al-Andalus. Jesús Lorenzo   3. Centralization and consolidation. The Cordoban Umayyads and the Amirids. Xavier Ballestin  4. Replication and fragmentation. The Taifa kingdoms. Alejandro García Sanjuán  5. Berber rule and Abbasid legitimacy. The Almoravids. Camilo Gomez-Rivas  6. Berber rule and the Maghribi caliphate. The Almohads. Pascal Buresi  7. Resistance and adaptation. The Nasrids. Francisco Vidal-Castro  8. The coins of al-Andalus. Ideological evolution and historical context. Tawfiq Ibrahim and Ruth Pliego  PART 2. Society  9. Arabs, Berbers, and local converts. Jessica Coope   10. Christians, Jews, and the dhimma status. David J. Wasserstein  11. Women and slaves. Manuela Marin  12. Traders and peasants. Pierre Guichard   13. Secretaries and the running of government. Bruna Soravia  14. Scholars, jurists, and the legal system. Maribel Fierro  15. Ascetics and Sufis. José Bellver  PART 3. Culture  16. Poetry and literature. Teresa Garulo  17. Religious sciences. Camilla Adang   18. Historiography and geography. Víctor de Castro León  19. Philosophy. Sarah Stroumsa  20. Sciences and technology. Mònica Rius-Piniés  21. Art and architecture. Susana Calvo Capilla  22. Material culture. José C. Carvajal López  23. Daily life and popular culture. Alejandro García Sanjuán  PART 4. The aftermath of al-Andalus  24. Living as Muslims under Christian rule. The Mudejars. Filomena Barros  25. The forced conversions and the Moriscos. Mayte Green-Mercado  26. The integration of al-Andalus in Islamic historiography. The view from the Maghrib and the Mashriq. Luis Molina   27. The memory of al-Andalus in early modern Spain. Fernando Rodríguez Mediano  28. Writing on al-Andalus in the modern Islamic world. Christina Civantos  29. Writing the history of al-Andalus. Spain and the West. Alejandro García Sanjuán  30. The Alhambra around the world. Images and constructions of an aesthetic paradigm of modernity. José Miguel Puerta Vílchez  31. The politics and aesthetics of Convivencia. Manuela Ceballos

O autorze

Maribel Fierro is a research professor at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo-CSIC), Spain. Her research focuses on the political, religious and intellectual history of al-Andalus and the Maghreb, Islamic law, the construction of orthodoxy and the persecution of heresies, and violence and its representation in Medieval Arabic sources. Among her publications: The Almohad Revolution. Politics and religion in the Islamic West during the twelfth–thirteenth centuries (2012), and Abd al-Rahman III: The first Cordoban caliph (2005). She has been the recipient of the Anneliese Maier Award 2014 of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.