Lost Civilisation?
Subtitle: The Contested Islamic Past in Spain and Portugal (Duckworth Debates in Archaeology)
Publisher: Duckworth Publishers; Duckworth
Published: September 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780715635681
Subjects: Archaeology; History: World; History; Archaeology / Anthropology; Social Science / Archaeology; Social History
Description: "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."--Jacket.