CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Medieval Islamic society set great store by the transmission of history: to edify, argue legal points, explain present conditions, o ffer political and religious legitimacy, and entertain. Modern scholars, too, have had much to say about the usefulness of early Isl amic history-writing, although this debate has traditionally focused overwhelmingly on the central Islamic lands. This book looks in stead at local and regional history-writing in Medieval Iberia. Drawing on numerous Arabic texts - historical, geographical and biog raphical...[Llegir més]