What Was the Islamic Conquest of Iberia?

Understanding the New Debate
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-367-76216-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 118 Seiten, Format (B × H): 247 mm x 174 mm, Gewicht: 228 g

What Was the Islamic Conquest of Iberia? Understanding the New Debate brings together leading scholars to offer an introduction to a recent debate with far-reaching implications for the study of history, as well as our understanding of the present.

In the year 711 CE, Islamic armies conquered the Iberian Peninsula. This seemingly uncontroversial claim has in fact been questioned, becoming an object of intense scholarly debate, debate that has reached a fevered pitch in recent decades within Spain. This volume introduces an anglophone audience to the terms and contours of this controversy, from its emergence in the late nineteenth century to its contemporary recrudescence. It suggests that far from an abstract discussion, this dispute reveals methodological and moral questions that remain vital to the study of the distant past, questions than cannot be easily resolved and have far-reaching consequences for the present. This volume offers novel perspectives on, not only the controversy, but also the latest research on the events of 711. These exemplary studies of historical, literary, and material cultural evidence demonstrate the promise and challenges for a new generation of scholarship.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garcia-Sanjuan, Alejandro

Fancy, Hussein

García-Sanjuán, Alejandro

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. "The new convivencia"

Hussein Fancy

2. Myth, history, and the origins of al-Andalus: a historiographical essay

Kenneth Baxter Wolf

3. Cultural memories of the conquest of al-Andalus between the ninth and twelfth centuries, C.E.

Janina M. Safran

4. After the conquest: ceramics and migrations

José C. Carvajal López

5. Numismatics data about the Islamic conquest of the Iberian Peninsula

Sébastien Gasc

6. Denying the Islamic conquest of Iberia: A historiographical fraud

Alejandro García-Sanjuán

Über Autor(innen)

Hussein Fancy is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. He is the author of the award-winning book, The Mercenary Mediterranean: Sovereignty, Religion, and Violence in the Medieval Crown of Aragon (2018, 2nd ed.)

Alejandro García-Sanjuán is Associate Professor of Medieval History at the University of Huelva, Spain. Among other works, he authored La conquista islámica de la península ibérica y la tergiversación del pasado: del catastrofismo al negacionismo (2019, 2nd ed.)