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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"History of Al-Andalus"”.
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Cultural Achievements and Social Reality in The Umayyad Caliphate of Cordoba 929-1031
<p>This thesis will focus on the history of al-Andalus (Modern Spain) beginning with the Muslim conquest in 711 and ending with the break up of the Umayyad caliphate in 1031. During this period, many scholars and commentators argue that there was a "Golden Age" of religious tolerance between Jews, …
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Creating the Present From the Ideological Margins of Society: Pseudo -Autobiographies in Post -Dictatorship Spain
An introduction discusses the characteristics of pseudo-autobiography and the techniques developed by these authors to battle society's dominant ideologies and discusses the dramatic changes both in Spanish society and in the authors themselves, which contributed to the rise of the new historical …
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TAWĀRĪKH AL-BULDĀN: LOCAL HISTORY IN THE ARABIC TRADITION A historiographical study based on a reading of a history of Gharnāṭa entitled Al-Iḥāṭa fī Akhbār Gharnāṭa by al-wazīr Lisān al-Dīn b. al-Khaṭīb (d. 776/1374)
This dissertation presents a historiographical study of tawārīkh al- buldān, or local history in the Arabic tradition. It is constituted of ten chapters that build on each other to convey a central thesis, which is argued, systematically, proceeding from the general to the specific. In this …