Prelude: The beginning of Islam and the end of antiquity -- Part I: Conquest, 700-820 -- An opening -- Trouble in paradise -- The falcon of the Quraysh -- A new emirate -- Part II: Transformation, 820 ...
Acknowledgments -- Style Note -- Note on Translated Essays -- Foreword / Salma Khadra Jayyusi -- History -- The Political History of al-Andalus (92/711-897/1492) (starting p. 3) / Mahmoud Makki -- ...
This week marks the anniversary of the end of nearly 700 years of African Muslim rule over Spain, Portugal and Southern France. Four hundred and eight years ago today King Phillip III of Spain signed ...
In 753, a northern king marched out of the mountains and raided deep into al-Andalus while Islamic Spain was weakened by ...
The emirate of Granada – Islam’s last polity in Spain – was surrendered to the Catholic monarchs on 2 January 1492.