Introduction: The Akhbār majmū‘a: Study and Speculation. Translation: The Akhbār majmū‘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-Rahmān 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 Alcántara (1867), Arabic text, page number and line. Appendix ii: The Governors (wālin pl. wulāh) of al-Andalus. Appendix iii: Mā’idat Sulaymān, the ‘Table of Solomon’: What was it?
Biography
David James was Special Lecturer in Arabic Studies at University College Dublin, where he taught a course on Islamic Spain. He is the author of Early Islamic Spain, The History of Ibn al-Qūtīya and several books on the art of the Islamic manuscript.
