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## Offers an in-depth study of the Umayyad Caliphate of al-Andalus in its prime * Provides a comprehensive study of the caliphate of Cordoba based on the ‘annals’ by ‘Īsà b. Aḥmad al-Rāzī and other Arab sources relating to the period * Brings together textual evidence with the archaeological record to produce a vivid description of the social formation of al-Andalus in this period * Analyses the structure and operation of a centralised ‘state’ in the High Middle Ages * Examines the legitimisation of power and authority in an Islamicate social formation * Offers a rigorous study of the Caliphate of Cordoba, which is usually the subject of idealised views with little historical base * Makes accessible to English-speaking audiences the huge advance of recent historical studies on the Umayyad caliphate During the second half of the 10th/4th century, the Umayyad caliphate of al-Andalus became a powerful political formation in Western Europe. Described by the contemporary German nun Hrotsvitha as the ‘ornament of the world’, Cordoba was the destiny of embassies and traders coming from places as far away as Constantinople, the Ottoman empire and Italy. The zenith of this political suprema

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Author

Eduardo Manzano Moreno (editor); Jeremy Roe (editor)

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781399516150

Category

nonfiction