1: The Muslim Conquest; 2: The Province of the Damascus Caliphate; 3: The Independent Umayyad Emirate; 4: The Grandeur of the Umayyad Caliphate; 5: Cultural Achievements Under the Umayyads; 6: The Collapse of Arab Rule; 7: The Berber Empires, the Almoravids; 8: The Berber Empires, the Almohads; 9: Cultural Greatness in Political Decline; 10: The Last of Islamic Spain; 11: The Significance of Islamic Spain
W. Montgomery Watt is professor emeritus of arabic and islamic studies at the University of Edinburgh. He has served as the chair of this department. Pierre Cachia taught at the University of Edinburgh, and was Senior Lecturer in Arabic. He is now professor emeritus of Arabic language and literature at Columbia University.
-This rapid survey of eight centuries of Hispano-Islamic history is
a competent, informative, and pleasantly readable performance.
Designedly aimed at the -educated reader,- it will also interest
the specialist for its many keen reappraisals of the civilization
and the strengths and weaknesses of Moorish Spain.- --C. J. Bishko,
The American Historical Review -This is the best introduction in
English... to Islamic Spain. The authors... have presented a clear
synthesis of politics and culture.- --J. N. Hillgarth, Speculum
-One must be immensely grateful to Professor Watt for having made
the constructive effort to draw together the work of several sets
of specialists and communicate the result to the educated world at
large.- --L. P. Harvey, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and
African Studies, University of London
"This rapid survey of eight centuries of Hispano-Islamic history is
a competent, informative, and pleasantly readable performance.
Designedly aimed at the "educated reader," it will also interest
the specialist for its many keen reappraisals of the civilization
and the strengths and weaknesses of Moorish Spain." --C. J. Bishko,
The American Historical Review "This is the best introduction in
English... to Islamic Spain. The authors... have presented a clear
synthesis of politics and culture." --J. N. Hillgarth, Speculum
"One must be immensely grateful to Professor Watt for having made
the constructive effort to draw together the work of several sets
of specialists and communicate the result to the educated world at
large." --L. P. Harvey, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and
African Studies, University of London
"This rapid survey of eight centuries of Hispano-Islamic history is
a competent, informative, and pleasantly readable performance.
Designedly aimed at the "educated reader," it will also interest
the specialist for its many keen reappraisals of the civilization
and the strengths and weaknesses of Moorish Spain." --C. J. Bishko,
The American Historical Review "This is the best introduction in
English... to Islamic Spain. The authors... have presented a clear
synthesis of politics and culture." --J. N. Hillgarth, Speculum
"One must be immensely grateful to Professor Watt for having made
the constructive effort to draw together the work of several sets
of specialists and communicate the result to the educated world at
large." --L. P. Harvey, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and
African Studies, University of London
"One must be immensely grateful to Professor Watt for having made
the constructive effort to draw together the work of several sets
of specialists and communicate the result to the educated world at
large." --L. P. Harvey, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and
African Studies, University of London
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