David James

A History of Early Al-Andalus

The Akhbar Majmu'a

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The Akhbar majmu'a or 'Collected Accounts / Anecdotes' is an anonymous work written sometime after the death of 'Abd al-Rahman III"--Introd.

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The Akhb¿r majm¿'a has in recent years been a topic of fierce debate, thought to be either one of the oldest original sources for the history of early Islamic Spain or a late compilation of earlier sources. This book examines the early history of Islamic Spain and provides a translation of this key contemporary account.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Critical edition
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780415669436
• ISBN-10: 041566943X
• Artikelnr.: 32731296

Autorenporträt

David James was Special Lecturer in Arabic Studies at University College Dublin, where he taught a course on Islamic Spain. He is the author of Early Islamic Spain, The History of Ibn al-Q¿t¿ya and several books on the art of the Islamic manuscript.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Akhb
r majm
'a: Study and Speculation. Translation: The Akhb
r majm
'a. 'Collected Accounts' of the years 86-350/705-961 1. The Conquest and the Rule of the Governors of Damascus 2. The Civil Wars 3. The Annals of 'Abd al-Rahm
n I 4. Scenes from the Lives of the Umayyad Emirs 5. The Caliph of al-Andalus Appendix i: Introductory Words, Phases and Headings given in Coloured Thulth and their Location in Lafuente y Alcántara (1867), Arabic text, page number and line. Appendix ii: The Governors (w
lin pl. wul
h) of al-Andalus. Appendix iii: M
'idat Sulaym
n, the 'Table of Solomon': What was it?