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Lost Civilization: The Contested Islamic Past in Spain and Portugal

Lost Civilization: The Contested Islamic Past in Spain and Portugal

Paperback

Series: Debates in Archaeology

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryArchaeology

ISBN10: 0715635689
ISBN13: 9780715635681
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Apr 1 2009
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

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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