FROM THE ARAB TO THE RECONQUEST

This work affords us a global vision of the historical trajectory of al-Andalus from the Arab-Berber occupation of the Peninsula as far as the fall of Granada. The book presents the main evolutionary events of civilization in this province of the Islamic world ove r a period of five richly contrasting centuries in an attempt to show the link between political, religious, cultural, artistic, eco nomic and social realities. Revised and extended edition including new illustrations and appendices.