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Author(s): Watt, Montgomery and Cachia, Pierre
ISBN(s): 9780202309361, 0202309363
Edition: 1st Edition
File Details: PDF, 7.27 MB
Year: 2007
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0202309363 
ISBN 13: 9780202309361
Author: Pierre Cachia

The period of Muslim occupation in Spain represents the only significant contact Islam and Europe was ever to have on European soil. In this important as well as fascinating study, Watt traces Islam’s influence upon Spain and European civilization – from the collapse of the Visigoths in the eighth century to the fall of Granada in the fifteenth, and considers Spain’s importance as a part of the Islamic empire. Particular attention is given to the golden period of economic and political stability achieved under the Umayyads. Without losing themselves in detail and without sacrificing complexity, the authors discuss the political, social, and economic continuity in Islamic Spain, or al-Andalus, in light of its cultural and intellectual effects upon the rest of Europe. Medieval Christianity, Watt points out, found models of scholarship in the Islamic philosophers and adapted the idea of holy war to its own purposes while the final reunification of Spain under the aegis of the Reconquista played a significant role in bringing Europe out of the Middle Ages. A survey essential to anyone seeking a more complete knowledge of European or Islamic history, the volume also includes sections on literature and philology by Pierre Cachia. This series of Islamic surveys is designed to give the educated reader something more than can be found in the usual popular books. Each work undertakes to survey a special part of the field, and to show the present stage of scholarship here. Where there is a clear picture this will be given; but where there are gaps, obscurities and differences of opinion, these will also be indicated. Full and annotated bibliographies will afford guidance to those who want to pursue their studies further. There will also be some account of the nature and extent of the source material. The series is addressed in the first place to the educated reader, with little or no previous knowledge of the subject; its character is such that it should be of value also to

A History of Islamic Spain 1st Table of contents:

1 The Muslim Conquest
1. The conquest as a phase of Arab expansion
2. The weakness of Visigothic Spain
3. The course of the invasion, 711-716
2 The Province of the Damascus Caliphate
1. The organisation of the province
2. The end of the advance
3. Internal tensions of the province
3 The Independent Umayyad Emirate
1. The establishment of the emirate
2. The crisis of the emirate
4 The Grandeur of the Umayyad Caliphate
1. Umayyad Spain at its zenith
2. The economic basis
3. Social and religious movements
4. The ruling institution
5 Cultural Achievements under the Umayyads
1. Intellectual life—the religious sciences
2. Intellectual life—poetry and belles-lettres
3. Art
4. The source of Moorish culture
6 The Collapse of Arab Rule
1. The ‘Arnirid dictatorship and the breakdown
2. The reasons for the breakdown
3. The “party kings” (1009-91)
7 The Berber Empires, The Almoravids
1. The foundations of the Almoravid state
2. The Almoravids in Spain
8 The Berber Empires, The Almohads
1. Ibn-Tūmart and the Almohad movement
2. Spain under the Almohads (to 1223)
3. The progress of the Reconquista from 1223 to 1248
9 Cultural Greatness in Political Decline
1. Poetry
2. Prose literature and philology
3. The religious sciences and history
4. Philosophy and mysticism
5. The art of the eleventh and twelfth centuries
10 The Last of Islamic Spain
1. The Nasrids of Granada
2. The Muslims under Christian rule
3. Literature in a period of retreat
4. The art of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
11 The Significance of Islamic Spain
1. The Arab and Islamic colony
2. The stimulation of Christian Spain and Europe
3. The intrinsic greatness of Islamic Spain

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