Muslim Spain Reconsidered

Richard Hitchcock is a emeritus professor at the University of Exeter. He is author or editor of several books including The Kharjas (Boydell & Brewer), Studies on the Muwassah and the Kharja (Ithaca Press), Mozarebs in Medieval and Early Modern Spain (Ashgate) and The Arab Influence in Medieval Europe (Ithaca Press).

• List of illustrations; Foreword; Introduction: Iberian background; 1. The invasion of the Iberian Peninsula – the eighth century; 2. The establishment of the Umayyad state in al-Andalus – the ninth century; 3. Al-Andalus in the tenth century; 4. The eleventh century – a time of change; 5. Al-Andalus under the rule of the Berber dynasties; 6. The thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; 7. The fifteenth century – the final phase of Muslim rule in al-Andalus; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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