Muslim Spain reconsidered from 711 to 1502

What made Muslim Spain a unique and successful society? Richard Hitchcock explores the background to its powerful legacy in the formation of modern Spain, using a chronological framework while constantly keeping in view the shifting social patterns caused by the changing balance between town and cou...

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Main Author: Hitchcock, Richard (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh, UK Edinburgh University Press 2014
Series:New Edinburgh Islamic surveys
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Iberian background
  • The invasion of the Iberian Peninsula : the eighth century
  • The establishment of the Umayyad state in al-Andalus : the ninth century
  • Al-Andalus in the tenth century
  • The eleventh century : a time of change
  • Al-Andalus under the rule of the Berber dynasties
  • The thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
  • The fifteenth century : the final phase of Muslim rule in al-Andalus
  • Conclusion