Format:
Online-Ressource (246 p)
ISBN:
9780700715640
Series Statement:
Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
Content:
Our current image of the Christian population of al-Andalus after AD711 reflects the way history has been written. The Christians almost disappeared from the historical record as the historians of the conquering Muslims concentrated on the glories of the Ummayads.This book reconsiders, through their own words, the fate of the Christians of al-Andalus. The texts discusses two chronicles in Latin on the fate of Hispania, the problematic accounts of Christian martyrs in Cordoba, a Muslim historian's account of how his Christian ancestors survived the conquest and other texts reflecting the accult
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Christians in al-Andalus (711-1000); Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; List of Rulers; Maps; CHAPTER ONE: lntroduction; CHAPTER TWO: Cordoba and Toledo; CHAPTER THREE: News from the east in the eighth-century chronicles; CHAPTER FOUR: The martyrs of Eulogius; CHAPTER FIVE: Two more martyrs of Cordoba; CHAPTER SIX: Recemund and the Calendar of Cordoba; CHAPTER SEVEN: The Arabic translation of Orosius; CHAPTER EIGHT: Sara the Goth and her descendants; CHAPTER NINE: Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
Additional Edition:
9781136127304
Additional Edition:
Print version Christians in Al-Andalus 711-1000
Language:
English
Keywords:
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