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Some Overlooked Realities of Jewish Life Under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain
Comparative Civilizations Review Volume 68 Number 68 Spring 2013 Article 4 4-1-2013 Some Overlooked Realities of Jewish Life under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain Dario Fernandez-Morera Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/ccr Recommended Citation Fernandez-Morera, Dario (2013) "Some Overlooked Realities of Jewish Life under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain," Comparative Civilizations Review: Vol. 68 : No. 68 , Article 4. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/ccr/vol68/iss68/4 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Comparative Civilizations Review by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. Fernandez-Morera: Some Overlooked Realities of Jewish Life under Islamic Rule in Me Comparative Civilizations Review 21 Some Overlooked Realities of Jewish Life under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain Dario Fernandez-Morera [email protected] It is widely accepted that under Islam the Jewish community of Spain briefly enjoyed a “Golden Age.” However, it is far less widely understood that Muslim, Christian, and Jewish legal and historical sources indicate that favorable treatment violated medieval Islamic law and also that even under the best circumstances, Jews remained subject to the vicissitudes of their condition as dhimmis (“protected” non-Muslims). If there was brief good treatment, it was because of tactical needs of particular Muslim rulers, not legal considerations. Marginalized groups who side with a successful invader normally see their status rise with a change in the political fortunes.1 The Jewish community of Spain was no exception. -
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Revista Káñina ISSN: 0378-0473 [email protected] Universidad de Costa Rica Costa Rica Marín Guzmán, Roberto ALGUNAS REFLEXIONES EN TORNO A LA VIGENCIA Y ACTUALIDAD DE LA OBRA DEL ARABISTA ESPAÑOL MIGUEL ASÍN PALACIOS (1871-1944). EL CASO DE DANTE Y EL ISLAM Revista Káñina, vol. XXXIV, núm. 2, 2010, pp. 203-228 Universidad de Costa Rica San José, Costa Rica Disponible en: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=44248788017 Cómo citar el artículo Número completo Sistema de Información Científica Más información del artículo Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal Página de la revista en redalyc.org Proyecto académico sin fines de lucro, desarrollado bajo la iniciativa de acceso abierto Káñina, Rev. Artes y Letras, Univ. Costa Rica. XXXIV (2): 203-228, 2010 / ISSN: 0378-0473 ALGUNAS REFLEXIONES EN TORNO A LA VIGENCIA Y ACTUALIDAD DE LA OBRA DEL ARABISTA ESPAÑOL MIGUEL ASÍN PALACIOS (1871-1944). EL CASO DE DANTE Y EL ISLAM Roberto Marín Guzmán* RESUMEN Miguel Asín Palacios fue uno de los más destacados arabistas españoles de los últimos años del siglo XIX y las primeras décadas del siglo XX. Sus trabajos originales, sus aportes al conocimiento del Islam y lo árabe en la Península Ibérica, así como la escuela de arabistas que desarrolló, marcaron una dirección que muchos otros siguieron. Su obra Dante y el Islam fue la que mayor impacto tuvo a nivel internacional. Miguel Asín Palacios demuestra, tras un estudio detallado de las fuentes árabes y la literatura surgida a raíz del isra’ y el mi ‘raj (el viaje nocturno y la ascensión al cielo) del Profeta Muhammad que la Divina Comedia tiene muchas coincidencias, paralelismos y puntos de inspiración en esas leyendas musulmanas que anteceden a Dante en muchos siglos. -
Trabajo Fin De Grado
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Repositorio Universidad de Zaragoza Trabajo Fin de Grado Abderramán III: Construcción y consolidación del poder en el Califato Omeya de Córdoba. Abderraman III: Construction and consolidation of the power in the Omeya caliphate of Córdoba. Autor/es Laura Ezquerro Herce Director/es María José Cervera Fras FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS 2019 1 RESUMEN La figura de Abderramán III resulta clave en el proceso de consolidación y construcción del poder en la Córdoba omeya de principios del siglo X. El nuevo soberano hereda de su abuelo un reino inestable, fragmentado y que parecía augurar el final de la dinastía, si bien el séptimo emir de los Omeyas cordobeses fue capaz de revertir la situación, alumbrando el periodo de mayor esplendor de la historia de al- Andalus, el califato de Córdoba. Tras largas y agotadoras campañas y respaldado por la tranquilidad de gobernar sobre un al-Andalus consolidado, pacificado y donde el control efectivo del poder por parte de los Omeyas era ya una realidad tangible, an-Nasir dedicó los últimos años de su vida a consagrar el poder omeya en Córdoba, consolidándose Medina Azahara, su ciudad palatina, como la más clara representación simbólica del poder construido por Abderramán III. Palabras clave: Abderramán III, califato, al-Andalus, Omeya, Medina Azahara. ABSTRACT Abderraman´s III figure is indispensable in the process of consolidation and construction of the power that the city of Cordoba would get in the beginnings of X century. The new sovereign inherits an inestable and fragmentized kingdom from his grand-father, which seemed to predict the end of the dynasty. -
Mozarab Perseverance of Identity and Faith Amid Islam by Stephen Chappell
Mozarab Perseverance of Identity and Faith Amid Islam By Stephen Chappell During the centuries of Muslim rule in medieval Spain most Christians converted to Islam. The vast majority of citizens living in al-Andalus became Muslim within a century of their invasion. But unlike in other Muslim conquered lands, a notable amount of Christians did not convert. This paper will seek to demonstrate why the Mozarab Christians of al-Andalus did not convert to Islam during the centuries of Muslim rule and dominance of the Iberian Peninsula. Despite the inconveniences and persecutions that befell those who did not seek conversion, there continued existing a significant number of non-Muslims living in al-Andalus. The main reasons why Mozarabs did not convert to Islam included often negative treatment of non-Arab Muslims, the influence from Muslim leaders on Christian bishops, the teachings of Christian leaders and polemic writings from other Christians, how Islam and Mozarabs viewed each other, and the way they identified themselves within the multi-cultural peninsula. The historiography of Mozarabs in medieval Spain has shifted over time according to popular fields of study. Mozarabs, as Aaron Michael Moreno describes them, are “individuals who can be identified at a most basic level as Christians with lineal roots in al-Andalus.”[1] Mozarabs defined under the current historiography are the descendants of the culturally Arabicizing Christians of al-Andalus.[2] In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Spain’s search for historical identity led historians to identify Mozarabs as the “candle bearers” of Spanish Catholic faith, which held strong under the Muslim conquest of the peninsula in 711. -
El Conde Casio, Los Banu Qasi Y Los Linajes Godos En Al-Andalus
ISSN: 0213-2060 EL CONDE CASIO, LOS BANU QASI Y LOS LINAJES GODOS EN AL-ANDALUS Count Casius, the Banu Qasi and the Gothic lineages in al-Andalus Maribel FIERRO Instituto de Filología. Centro de Ciencias Históricas y Sociales. CSIC. C/ Albasanz, 26-28. E-28037 MADRID. C. e.: [email protected] Recibido: 2009-04-06 Aceptado: 2009-09-14 BIBLID [0213-2060(2009)27;181-189] RESUMEN: Este texto es una relectura de los orígenes de la familia Banu Qasi, a partir de las conclusiones de la reciente tesis de Jesús Lorenzo Jiménez. De acuerdo con ese trabajo, se descarta la condición de importante personaje aristocrático del epónimo Casio. Se observa además un proceso de formación de una memoria genealógica, vinculada a los Omeyas, que surgió al calor del reforzamiento ideológico del poder de los emires cordobeses. Palabras clave: Muladíes. Genealogía. Memoria. ABSTRACT: This paper examines the origins of the Banu Qasi family from the conclusions of the recent Ph. D. dissertation of Jesús Lorenzo Jiménez. According to the last mentioned study, the eponymous Casius was not an important member of the most powerful Visigothic aristocracy. A genealogical memory linked to the Umayyads was created as a part of a general process of ideological reinforcement of the power of the emirs of Córdoba in al-Andalus. Keywords: Muladies. Genealogy. Memory. © Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca Stud. hist., H.ª mediev., 27, 2009, pp. 181-189 maribel fierro el conde casio, los banu qasi 182 y los linajes godos en al-andalus En un texto muy conocido, incluido en su tratado sobre genealogías, Ibn Hazm (m. -
Cultural Flourishing in Tenth Century Muslim Spain Among Muslims, Jews, and Christians
CULTURAL FLOURISHING IN TENTH CENTURY MUSLIM SPAIN AMONG MUSLIMS, JEWS, AND CHRISTIANS A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of The School of Continuing Studies and of The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Liberal Studies By Marilyn Penn Allen, B.S. Georgetown University Washington D.C. December 17, 2008 Copyright 2008 by Marilyn Penn Allen All Rights Reserved ii CULTURAL FLOURISHING IN TENTH CENTURY MUSLIM SPAIN AMONG MUSLIMS, JEWS, AND CHRISTIANS Marilyn Penn Allen, B.S. Mentor: Ori Z. Soltes, Ph.D. ABSTRACT This thesis seeks to discover what made it possible for such an extraordinary cultural flourishing to occur among Muslims, Jews, and Christians in tenth century Muslim Spain during the reign of the Umayyad Muslim leader Abd al-Rahman III and his Jewish vizier (minister of state), Hasdai ibn Shaprut. What historical, societal, and personal factors made it possible for these two leaders to collaborate? My analysis primarily looks at the time of Muslim rule in Medieval Spain (called al-Andalus by the Muslims and Sepharad by the Jews) from 711 to 1031 C.E. However, in order to place that time period in context, it is important to look at what was happening in Spain before the Muslim invasion as well as what was happening in the known world, in particular the Mediterranean basin, from the first to the eleventh centuries. For example, the Muslim empire spread rapidly in the seventh and eighth centuries, eventually encompassing the territories from Spain to the Indus River and controlling all the trade routes across the Mediterranean. -
Algunas Consideraciones Espaciales Y Toponimicas Sobre Bobastro
ALGUNAS CONSIDERACIONES ESPACIALES Y TOPONIMICAS SOBRE BOBASTRO VIRGILIO MARTíNEZ ENAMORADO Universidad de Málaga Si hay un tema controvertido en los últimos años en relación con la actividad del rebelde 'Umar b. I:Iaf~ün, ése es el de la ubicación del ba luarte desde el que inicia su fitna contra Córdoba, Bobastro, aspecto éste omnipresente en la bibliografía general de al-Andalus 1 y fuente inagotable de nuevas hipótesis e interpretaciones en algunos casos, es pecialmente en lo que a «historia local» 2 se refiere, de escasa base cientí• fica o absolutamente descabelladas 3. 1 Como reflejo de la preocupación sobre esta cuestión cabe mencionar, aparte de los trabajos que posteriormente serán citados, a Sánchez Jiménez, M., Apogeo y crisis del Estado cordobés, vol. 1, de la Historia de Andaluda, Barcelona, 1980, 247; Guichard, P., "Les mozarabes de Valence et d'al-Andalus entre l'histoire et le mythe», Revue de l'Occident Musulman et de la Méditerranée: Al-Andalus. Culture et Société, núm. 40 (1985),21; Cabrera, E. y Córdoba, R., "Andalucía en el siglo X», en Abderrahman III y su época coordinado por E. Cabrera, Córdoba, 1991, 198-199, YJiménez Mata, M. c., "Umar ibn Hafsun y el fracaso de un Estado muladí», en La islamización de al-Andalus (siglo IX), Historia 16, núm. 177 (1991), 64, entre otros. 1 Dentro de este capítulo, pueden destacarse algunos trabajos de Requena, F., El amirato malagueiio de los Beni Hafsun, Antequera, 1959; "La fortaleza de Bobastro», "Los castillos defensores de Bobastro. Primera línea: Alora, Ardales y Turón», "Castillos de Umar b. -
Andalusi Muslims: a Bourdieuian Analysis of Ethnic Group Identity, (881-1110 C.E.)
ANDALUSI MUSLIMS: A BOURDIEUIAN ANALYSIS OF ETHNIC GROUP IDENTITY, (881-1110 C.E.) A Dissertation Submitted to the Temple University Graduate Board In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY by Phillip Hoefs January 2014 Examining Committee Members: Khalid Blankinship, Advisory Chair, Department of Religion Terry Rey, Department of Religion Kathleen Biddick, Department of History Zameer Hasan, External Member, Department of Physics © Copyright 2013 by Phillip Hoefs All Rights Reserved ii ABSTRACT This work examines ethnic group identities among the Muslim population in the Iberian Peninsula, or al-Andalus, between 881 and 1110 C.E. It specifically addresses three moments in Andalusi history in which ethnic conflict erupted into the political sphere: 1) The revolt of Ibn Hafsun in the late Ninth/early Tenth Century C.E. 2) The collapse of the Umayyad Caliphate in the late Tenth/early Eleventh Century C.E. 3) The arrival of the North African Almoravid dynasty in the late Eleventh/early Twelfth Century C.E. Through an investigation of each period it argues that ethnic categorization in al-Andalus has been under-theorized. The work addresses the complications of religious conversion and the resultant ramifications on religious identity, which, over time, significantly influenced deployable ethnic identities among the Muslim population. It utilizes the theoretical tools of the French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu in order to re-conceptualize the understanding of Andalusi Muslim ethnic group identities. It considers how the role of women and systems of clientage have been underappreciated in the understanding of these identities and through attention to these dynamics argues that Andalusi Muslims created an Andalusi Arab Muslim identity that increasingly unified and strengthened this social group as the political structure around it disintegrated. -
Algunas Reflexiones En Torno a La Vigencia Y Actualidad De La Obra Del Arabista Español Miguel Asín Palacios (1871-1944)
Káñina, Rev. Artes y Letras, Univ. Costa Rica. XXXIV (2): 203-228, 2010 / ISSN: 0378-0473 ALGUNAS REFLEXIONES EN TORNO A LA VIGENCIA Y ACTUALIDAD DE LA OBRA DEL ARABISTA ESPAÑOL MIGUEL ASÍN PALACIOS (1871-1944). EL CASO DE DANTE Y EL ISLAM Roberto Marín Guzmán* RESUMEN Miguel Asín Palacios fue uno de los más destacados arabistas españoles de los últimos años del siglo XIX y las primeras décadas del siglo XX. Sus trabajos originales, sus aportes al conocimiento del Islam y lo árabe en la Península Ibérica, así como la escuela de arabistas que desarrolló, marcaron una dirección que muchos otros siguieron. Su obra Dante y el Islam fue la que mayor impacto tuvo a nivel internacional. Miguel Asín Palacios demuestra, tras un estudio detallado de las fuentes árabes y la literatura surgida a raíz del isra’ y el mi ‘raj (el viaje nocturno y la ascensión al cielo) del Profeta Muhammad que la Divina Comedia tiene muchas coincidencias, paralelismos y puntos de inspiración en esas leyendas musulmanas que anteceden a Dante en muchos siglos. Para el arabistas español esas semejanzas son más que coincidencias y paralelismos, resultan una copia que hizo Dante de los castigos y premios y muchos otros asuntos del viaje a ultratumba del Profeta Muhammad. Después de todo el análisis anterior, este ensayo muestra la vigencia y actualidad de la obra de Miguel Asín Palacios, en especial su Dante y el Islam. Palabras clave: Arabismo español, Miguel Asín Palacios, Dante y el Islam, influencia del Islam en Dante. ABSTRACT Miguel Asín Palacios was one of the foremost Spanish Arabists of the last years of the Nineteenth century and the first decades of the Twentieth century. -
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Christians in Al-Andalus (8th-10th centuries) Ann Christys '-L . Submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, University of Leeds, School of History. March 1999 The candidate confirms that the work submitted is her own and that appropriate credit has been given where reference has been made to the work of others. Christians in Al-Andalus, (8th-10th centuries) Ann Christys PhD, March, 1999. Abstract: The historiography of early Islamic Spain has become polarised between the Arabic narrative histories and the Latin sources. Although the Arabic sources have little directly to say about the situation of the conquered Christians, a willingness to engage with both Latin and Arabic texts opens up a wide range of material on such controversial topics as acculturation and conversion to Islam. This thesis examines a number of texts written by or attributed to Christians living in Al-Andalus before the fall of the caliphate, early in the eleventh century. It begins with two eighth-century Latin chronicles and their wholly Christian response to the conquest and the period of civil wars which followed it. The reliability of Eulogius' testimony to the Cordoban martyr movement of the 850s is considered in the light of Alvarus' Vita Eulogii and other evidence. Tenth-century Cordoba is briefly described as a backdrop to the later sources. The passions of two Cordoban martyrs of this period show that hagiography allowed for different accounts of dissident Christians. The status of bishop Recemund as the author of the Calendar of Cordoba and the epitome of 'convivencia' is re-evaluated. -
Before the Reconquista: Frontier Relations in Medieval Iberia, 718–1031
This is a repository copy of Before the Reconquista: Frontier Relations in Medieval Iberia, 718–1031. White Rose Research Online URL for this paper: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/109394/ Version: Accepted Version Book Section: Jarrett, J orcid.org/0000-0002-0433-5233 (2017) Before the Reconquista: Frontier Relations in Medieval Iberia, 718–1031. In: Muñoz-Basols, J, Lonsdale, L and Delgado, M, (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies. Routledge Companions . Routledge , London, UK , pp. 27-40. ISBN 9780415722834 © The Author 2017. This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in The Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies on 28th March 2017, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9780415722834. Reuse Items deposited in White Rose Research Online are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved unless indicated otherwise. They may be downloaded and/or printed for private study, or other acts as permitted by national copyright laws. The publisher or other rights holders may allow further reproduction and re-use of the full text version. This is indicated by the licence information on the White Rose Research Online record for the item. Takedown If you consider content in White Rose Research Online to be in breach of UK law, please notify us by emailing [email protected] including the URL of the record and the reason for the withdrawal request. [email protected] https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ 3 BEFORE THE RECONQUISTA: FRONTIER RELATIONS IN MEDIEVAL IBERIA, 718–1031 Jonathan Jarrett The word “Reconquista” implies a claim by the inhabitants of the northern Iberian Peninsula to a past in which their ancestors had held dominion over the lands to the south, whose recapture would return the Peninsula to Christian control (Menéndez Pidal 1929; cf. -
War, Diplomacy and Peacemaking in Medieval Iberia
War, Diplomacy and Peacemaking in Medieval Iberia War, Diplomacy and Peacemaking in Medieval Iberia Edited by Kim Bergqvist, Kurt Villads Jensen and Anthony John Lappin War, Diplomacy and Peacemaking in Medieval Iberia Edited by Kim Bergqvist, Kurt Villads Jensen and Anthony John Lappin This book first published 2021 Cambridge Scholars Publishing Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2021 by Kim Bergqvist, Kurt Villads Jensen, Anthony John Lappin and contributors All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-5275-6153-4 ISBN (13): 978-1-5275-6153-3 TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Figures............................................................................................ vii Contributors ................................................................................................ ix Introduction ................................................................................................ xi Chapter 1 ..................................................................................................... 1 Muslim Warlords, Christian Kings and the Asturian Chronicles John Wreglesworth Chapter 2 ..................................................................................................