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200 14$aThe Muslim conquest of Iberia $emedieval Arabic narratives /$fNicola Clarke
210  1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2012.
215   $a1 online resource (273 p.)
225 1 $aCulture and civilization in the Middle East ;$v30
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-415-71915-1 
311   $a0-415-67320-8 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aConstructing al-Andalus5 The Table of Solomon: a historiographical motif and its functions; The Temple of Jerusalem and its artistic and historiographical afterlife; Royal treasure hoards and the question of Visigothic legitimacy; Solomon's Table in the Muslim historiographical tradition; Conclusion; 6 Excusing and explaining conquest: traitors and collaborators in Muslim and Christian sources; Literary devices in historical writing; Traitor type 1: the plot device; Traitor type 2: the rogue insider; Traitor type 3: the romantic antihero; Traitor type 4: the disaffected faction; Conclusion
327   $a7 On the other side of the world: comparing narratives of contemporary Islamic conquests in the eastThe basic stories of the eastern narratives; Texts for the eastern narratives; The major themes of the eastern narratives; Conclusion: points of correspondence; Conclusion: history on the margins; Notes; Bibliography; Index
330   $aMedieval Islamic society set great store by the transmission of history: to edify, argue legal points, explain present conditions, offer political and religious legitimacy, and entertain. Modern scholars, too, have had much to say about the usefulness of early Islamic history-writing, although this debate has traditionally focused overwhelmingly on the central Islamic lands. This book looks instead at local and regional history-writing in Medieval Iberia. Drawing on numerous Arabic texts - historical, geographical and biographical - composed and transmitted in al-Andalus, North Afric
410  0$aCulture and civilisation in the Middle East.
606   $aMuslims$zSpain$xHistory$vEarly works to 1800
606   $aMuslims$zSpain$xHistoriography
606   $aManuscripts, Arabic$zSpain
606   $aManuscripts, Arabic$zAfrica, North
607   $aSpain$xHistory$y711-1516$vEarly works to 1800
607   $aSpain$xHistory$y711-1516$xHistoriography
608   $aElectronic books.
615  0$aMuslims$xHistory
615  0$aMuslims$xHistoriography.
615  0$aManuscripts, Arabic
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