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Autore: | Clarke Nicola <1980-, > |
Titolo: | The Muslim conquest of Iberia : medieval Arabic narratives / / Nicola Clarke |
Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
Disciplina: | 946/.02 |
Soggetto topico: | Muslims - Spain - History |
Muslims - Spain - Historiography | |
Manuscripts, Arabic - Spain | |
Manuscripts, Arabic - Africa, North | |
Soggetto geografico: | Spain History 711-1516 Early works to 1800 |
Spain History 711-1516 Historiography | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Constructing 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 |
7 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 | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Medieval 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | The Muslim conquest of Iberia |
ISBN: | 1-136-58819-1 |
1-283-52069-9 | |
9786613833143 | |
0-203-18089-5 | |
1-136-58820-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910827294603321 |
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