What Was the Islamic Conquest of Iberia?

ISBN-13: 9780367762162 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 110 str.

Opis

What Was the Islamic Conquest of Iberia?: Understanding the New Debate brings together leading scholars to offer an introduction to a recent debate with far-reaching implications for the study of history, as well as our understanding of the present.

Spis treści

1. "The new convivencia"

Hussein Fancy

2. Myth, history, and the origins of al-Andalus: a historiographical essay

Kenneth Baxter Wolf

3. Cultural memories of the conquest of al-Andalus between the ninth and twelfth centuries, C.E.

Janina M. Safran

4. After the conquest: ceramics and migrations

José C. Carvajal López

5. Numismatics data about the Islamic conquest of the Iberian Peninsula

Sébastien Gasc

6. Denying the Islamic conquest of Iberia: A historiographical fraud

Alejandro García-Sanjuán

O autorze

Hussein Fancy is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. He is the author of the award-winning book, The Mercenary Mediterranean: Sovereignty, Religion, and Violence in the Medieval Crown of Aragon (2018, 2^nd ed.)

Alejandro García-Sanjuán is Associate Professor of Medieval History at the University of Huelva, Spain. Among other works, he authored La conquista islámica de la península ibérica y la tergiversación del pasado: del catastrofismo al negacionismo (2019, 2^nd ed.)