IMC 2018: Sessions

Session 828: Remembering and Misremembering the Islamic World, II

Organiser:	Ann R. Christys, Independent Scholar, Leeds
Moderator/Chair:	Harry Munt, Department of History, University of York
Paper 828-a	Was the Umayyad Caliphate of al-Andalus as Strong as the Arab Chroniclers Said? (Language: English) Josep Suñé, Departament d'Història i Arqueologia, Universitat de Barcelona Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies
Paper 828-b	Ibn Khaldun Misremembers the Umayyad Dynasty in al-Andalus (Language: English) Ann R. Christys, Independent Scholar, Leeds Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies
Paper 828-c	Remembering an Andalusi Dynasty: The Banu Hud's Memory from the Magreb to the Mashreq (Language: English) Aurora González Artigao, Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid
Abstract	The second session picks out three instances of an accepted narrative that is clearly wrong. The first paper shows how Latin sources undermine the Arabic historians' triumphalist accounts of Umayyad military campaigns in the Iberian peninsula. The second contrasts Ibn Khaldun's reputation as a analyst of the rise and fall of dynasties with his sketchy and uncertain narrative of Umayyad rule in al-Andalus.The third speaker introduces varying memories of the Banu Hud, one of the taifa kingdoms that succeeded the Umayyads.