Some readers may open this book seeking answers about the tumult that currently roils the
Middle East. I hope that it is interesting and useful for them. My goal, however, has never …

Islam has long been a part of the West in terms of religion, culture, politics and society.
Discussing this interaction from al-Andalus to the present, this Handbook explores the …

Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, el Cid, es una de las figuras históricas más enraizadas en el
imaginario colectivo de los españoles, desde el Cantar de Mío Cid hasta la película de …

This study strives to understand Islamicisation from a social point of view, rather than related
only to the religious conversion or to a set of specific Islamic material manifestations. A …

Septel11, Sebta, Ceuta, les noms donnés à cette ville retracent un peu son histoire. Enclave
européenne située à l'extrêl11e nord cE l'Afrique, elle a un statut tout à fait particulier qui …

While for the sixth/twelfth century onwards there is no lack of data allowing the recovery of
the sacred geography of al-Andalus, such data are scarce for the earlier period. This article …

• La trayectoria de los baḥriyyūn y la gestación de un eje de intercambios marítimo-El
origen como guerreros marinos y traficantes de esclavos-Los baḥriyyūn en el exilio. El …

La implantación del Estado Emiral se lleva a cabo mediante el control de las ciudades más
importantes de la etapa visigoda para, a través de éstas, ejercer un dominio efectivo del …

The great Cordoban polygraph Ibn Hazm (d. 456/1064) chose as the legal school to follow
the literalist or Ẓāhirī, instead of the Mālikī legal school that was the predominant in al …

Madīnat Ilbīra was the capital of one of the territorial organization units of the Umayyad state.
The city was founded in the second half of the ninth century, and then abandoned in the …