The court of the Caliphate of al-Andalus : four years in Umayyad Córdoba / Eduardo Manzano Moreno ; translation, Jeremy Roe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manzano Moreno, Eduardo, author.

Contributor:

Roe, Jeremy, translator.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture.

Edinburgh studies in classical Islamic history and culture

Standardized Title:

Corte del califa. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Umayyad dynasty.

Córdoba (Spain)--Court and courtiers--History--To 1500.

Córdoba (Spain).

Andalusia (Spain)--History--To 1500.

Andalusia (Spain).

Córdoba (Spain)--Court and courtiers.

Spain--History--711-1516.

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 462 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

During the second half of the tenth/fourth century, the Umayyad caliphate of al-Andalus became a powerful political formation in Western Europe. Described by the contemporary German nun Hrotsvitha as the 'ornament of the world', Cordoba was the destiny of embassies and traders coming from places as far away as Constantinople, the Ottoman empire and Italy. The zenith of this political supremacy coincided with the rule of al-Ḥakam II (961 - 976 CE), whose name is associated with the enlargement of the mosque of Cordoba, the magnificent palatine city of Madīnat al-Zahrāʼ and the rich caliphal library which housed Arab, Latin and Hebrew manuscripts.<br><br>This book is based on an extraordinary source that had never been the subject of a comprehensive study: the annals written by an official and chronicler of the caliph's court, 'Īsà b. Ahmad al-Rāzī, who carefully annotated the big and small events of the court. Used by Ibn Hayyān to compose one of the volumes of his celebrated Muqtabis, these 'annals' have come to us in a substantial fragment of more than 135 folia that cover the period from June 971 to July 975 CE. This source provides an eye-witness account of the caliphate, which describes with stunning detail all the events, characters, places and narratives of the Umayyad caliphate, and is a fundamental work in helping us to understand the configuration of the Mediterranean in the tenth century CE.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword to the English Edition

Introduction

1 The Caliphate and the Natural and Human Cycles

2 The Caliphate's Resources and Wealth

3 The Caliph and the Sulṭān

4 The Armies of the Caliph

5 The Struggle against the Fāṭimid Caliphate: (I) The Background

6 The Struggle against the Fāṭimid Caliphate: (II) The Conflict

7 Defending the Muslims

8 The Authority of the Caliph

9 The Representation of Power

10 Córdoba and Madīnat al-Zahrā': Topography of Power and Urban Space

Sources and Bibliography

Index of Persons

Index of Places

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Mar 2025).

First published as La corte del califa. Cuatro años en la Córdoba de los omeyas in 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781399516143

1399516140

OCLC:

1417147453