1st Edition

What Was the Islamic Conquest of Iberia? Understanding the New Debate

Edited By Hussein Fancy, Alejandro García-Sanjuán Copyright 2021
118 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

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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

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Biography

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.)