A history of early al-Andalus : the Akhbār majmūʻa : a study of the unique Arabic manuscript in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, with a translation, notes and comments
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A history of early al-Andalus : the Akhbār majmūʻa : a study of the unique Arabic manuscript in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, with a translation, notes and comments
(Culture and civilization in the Middle East, 26)
Routledge, 2012
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-181) and index
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The Akhbar majmu'a, or 'Collected Accounts', deal with the Muslim conquest of the Iberian peninsula in 711 and subsequent events in al-Andalus, down to and including the reign of 'Abd al-Rahman III (912-961), founder of the Umayyad caliphate of al-Andalus . No Arabic text dealing with the early history of al-Andalus has aroused more controversy, and its contents and origin have occupied the attention of leading scholars of Islamic Spain since its publication in 1867.
This book gives the first complete English translation of this key contemporary text, together with notes, comments, appendices and maps. It is introduced by a survey of scholarly opinion on the text from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century in which all the - often heated - arguments around the text are explained. The translator concludes his introduction with an in-depth examination of the manuscript containing the only surviving copy of the text and presents some interesting new evidence provided by scribe which has gone unnoticed until now. Providing new insights into this significant Arabic text, this book will be of great interest to scholars of the history of Spain and Portugal, Islamic history, and Mediaeval European history.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Akhbar majmu'a: Study and Speculation. Translation: The Akhbar majmu'a. 'Collected Accounts' of the years 86-350/705-961 1. The Conquest and the Rule of the Governors of Damascus 2. The Civil Wars 3. The Annals of 'Abd al-Rahman I 4. Scenes from the Lives of the Umayyad Emirs 5. The Caliph of al-Andalus Appendix i: Introductory Words, Phases and Headings given in Coloured Thulth and their Location in Lafuente y Alcantara (1867), Arabic text, page number and line. Appendix ii: The Governors (walin pl. wulah) of al-Andalus. Appendix iii: Ma'idat Sulayman, the 'Table of Solomon': What was it?
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