TY  - BOOK
AU  - Watt,William Montgomery
AU  - Cachia,Pierre
TI  - A History of Islamic Spain
SN  - 9781474473446
AV  - DP103 .W388 2007
U1  - 946.02 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Muslims-Spain-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: The Interest of Islamic Spain -- CHAPTER 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 -- CHAPTER 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 -- CHAPTER 3 The Independent Umyyad Emirate -- 1. The establishment of the Emirate -- 2. The crisis of the emirate -- CHAPTER 4 The Grandeue of the Umyyad Caliphate -- 1. Umayyad Spain at its zenith -- 2. The Economic Basis -- 3. Social and religious movements -- 4. The ruling institution -- CHAPTER 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 -- CHAPTER 6 The Collapse of Arab Rule -- 1. The 'Āmirid dictatorship and the breakdown -- 2. The reasons for the breakdown -- 3. The 'party kings' (1009-91) -- CHAPTER 7 The Berber Empires, the Almoravids -- 1. The foundations of the Almoravid state -- 2. The Almoravids in Spain -- CHAPTER 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 -- CHAPTER 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 -- CHAPTER 10 The Last of Islamic Spain -- 1. The Naṣrids of Granada -- 2. The Muslims under Christian rule -- 3. Literature in a period of retreat -- 4. The art of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries -- CHAPTER 11 The Significance of Islamic Spain -- 1. The Arab and Islamic colony; 2. The stimulation of Christain Spain and Europe -- 3. The intrinsic greatness of Islamic Spain -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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