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The Muslim conquest of Iberia : medieval Arabic narratives / / Nicola Clarke



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Autore: Clarke Nicola <1980-, > Visualizza persona
Titolo: The Muslim conquest of Iberia : medieval Arabic narratives / / Nicola Clarke Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
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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Serie: Culture and civilisation in the Middle East.