Early Muslim Accounts of the History of al-Andalus: Abd al-Malik bin Habib’s ‘Book of History’
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The period of Muslim conquest and rule over Iberia/al-Andalus that began in 711 CE has strong resonance in popular Muslim memory (e.g. consider that many well-known cities in the Arab world have neighbourhoods called ‘al-Andalus’), yet it is striking that there are no surviving contemporary Muslim accounts (Arabic language) of the conquest and its immediate aftermath. Rather, the most important contemporary account we have is a Latin source:
Early Muslim Accounts of the History of al-Andalus: Abd al-Malik bin Habib’s ‘Book of History’
Early Muslim Accounts of the History of…
Early Muslim Accounts of the History of al-Andalus: Abd al-Malik bin Habib’s ‘Book of History’
The period of Muslim conquest and rule over Iberia/al-Andalus that began in 711 CE has strong resonance in popular Muslim memory (e.g. consider that many well-known cities in the Arab world have neighbourhoods called ‘al-Andalus’), yet it is striking that there are no surviving contemporary Muslim accounts (Arabic language) of the conquest and its immediate aftermath. Rather, the most important contemporary account we have is a Latin source: