Lost Civilization : The Contested Islamic Past in Spain and Portugal
Overview
Al-Andalus, the Iberian Islamic civilization centred on Cordoba in the tenth and eleventh centuries, has been a 'lost' civilization in several respects. Its history suppressed or denied for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it was regarded as a kind of 'historical parenthesis' with no lasting influence. Over the past twenty-five years, however, the history and archaeology of the Islamic period in the Iberian peninsula has undergone a complete transformation. Lost Civilization presents an introduction to this debate as it has played out in archaeology, taking a comparative civilizations approach that puts the formation of al-Andalus in context with corresponding developments elsewhere in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
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- ISBN-13: 9780715635681
- ISBN-10: 0715635689
- Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
- Publish Date: April 2009
- Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.5 pounds
- Page Count: 144
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