Christians in Al-Andalus 711-1000Our current image of the Christian population of al-Andalus after AD711 reflects the way history has been written. The Christians almost disappeared from the historical record as the historians of the conquering Muslims concentrated on the glories of the Ummayads.This book reconsiders, through their own words, the fate of the Christians of al-Andalus. The texts discusses two chronicles in Latin on the fate of Hispania, the problematic accounts of Christian martyrs in Cordoba, a Muslim historian's account of how his Christian ancestors survived the conquest and other texts reflecting the acculturation of Christians into Islamic society. |
Contents
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Cordoba and Toledo | 14 |
News from the east in the eighthcentury chronicles | 28 |
The martyrs of Eulogius | 52 |
Two more martyrs of Cordoba | 80 |
Recemund and the Calendar of Cordoba | 108 |
The Arabic translation of Orosius | 135 |
Sara the Goth and her descendants | 158 |
Afterword | 184 |
Notes | 187 |
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Abd al-Rahman Abd al-Rahman III al-Andalus al-Faradi al-Hakam al-Hakam II al-Maqqari Alodia Alvarus Andalusi Antapodosis Arabic sources Arabic version Argentea Arib ibn Sa‘id Artubas Asturian bishop Byzantine Calendar of Cordoba caliph Cardefia chapter christians of al-Andalus Chronicle g Chronicle of 754 church codex Columbia manuscript compiled Constantinople copied death eighth century Elipandus Eulogius first genealogies Gorze hagiographer Heraclius Hisham Hispania Hispanic historians history of al-Andalus Huesca ibid ibn Abd Ibn al-Qutiya Ibn Hayyan Ibn Idhari Ibn Khaldun Ibn Zaid identified Ildefonsus Isidore Isidore’s islamic conquest king Koningsveld later Leire Liudprand martyrdom martyrs martyrs of Cordoba monastery Muhammad muslim Navarre Nunilo and Alodia Orosius passage Passionary Pelagius Pelayo peninsula perhaps polemic Rabi Reccared Recemund reign relics rulers saints Sara the Goth Saracens scholars significance Silos Simonet story surviving Syria tenth century Toledo translation Umayyad Visigothic Witiza Wolf writing written