IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 325: On the Edge of the dār al-Islam: The Emergence of al-Andalus as an Islamic and Arab Society
Monday 6 July 2020, 16.30-18.00
Organiser: | Eduardo Manzano Moreno, Instituto de Historia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid |
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Moderator/Chair: | Hugh Kennedy, Department of the Languages & Cultures of the Near & Middle East, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London |
Paper 325-a | Shaqunda: The Archaeology of an Early Islamic Urban Suburb, 8th and 9th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
Paper 325-b | Connecting Ifrīqiya and al-Andalus: Urban Growth and Exchanges during the Umayyad Period (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Urban, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Social History |
Paper 325-c | The Legacy of Classical Antiquity in Early al-Andalus (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
Abstract | After the conquest of 711, al-Andalus was part of the Islamic caliphate for a very brief period of no more than 45 years. Despite this short span of time, a full fledged islamic and arabised society emerged in a land that was far away the main political and intelectual centres of the dār al-Islam. Drawing from recent archaeological and textual evidence this session explores the economic, social, and ideological aspects that help to explain how and why this extraordinary historical process took place. |