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Al-Andalus, adventures and misfortunes of an Arab and Islamic country in the southwestern corner of Europe
May 21, 20247:30 p.m.
CORDOBA
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9).
7:30 p.m.
Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
In Spanish.
On Tuesday, May 21, University of Huelva professor Alejandro García Sanjuán will give a conference on the occasion of the visit by a group of Rutgers University students to the city, coordinated by Professor Mayte Green-Mercado.
Rutgers University (United States), with the cooperation of Casa Árabe, is organizing this conference by Alejandro García Sanjuán, a professor of Medieval History at the University of Huelva.
Al-Andalus was an Arab and Islamic country on the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages (eighth to fifteenth centuries). Studies on Al-Andalus have been influenced by various factors which have conditioned its understanding as a historical process, academically, socially, politically and ideologically. Denigrated and mythologized, but also the subject of intense and fruitful, though unequal, academic interest, Al-Andalus continues to lie at the center of debates that involve such important concepts as identity, nation, peaceful co-existence, integration, exclusion and diversity, as well as others.
Alejandro García Sanjuán has been a professor of Medieval History at the University of Jaén since 2009. His area of research is medieval peninsular history, with a special focus on the history of Al-Andalus. His most notable recent publications include La conquista islámica de la Península Ibérica y la tergiversación del pasado: del catastrofismo al negacionismo (The Islamic Conquest of the Iberian Peninsula and the Misrepresentation of the Past: From catastrophism to negationaism, Marcial Pons, 2019, second edition); Yihad. La regulación de la guerra en la doctrina islámica clásica (Jihad: The regulation of war in classical Islamic doctrine, Marcial Pons, 2020) and Las sociedades islámicas clásicas (siglos VII-XV). Estructuras, procesos y mentalidades (Classical Islamic Societies [seventh to fifteenth centuries]: Structures, processes and mindsets, Editorial Síntesis, 2021).
Al-Andalus was an Arab and Islamic country on the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages (eighth to fifteenth centuries). Studies on Al-Andalus have been influenced by various factors which have conditioned its understanding as a historical process, academically, socially, politically and ideologically. Denigrated and mythologized, but also the subject of intense and fruitful, though unequal, academic interest, Al-Andalus continues to lie at the center of debates that involve such important concepts as identity, nation, peaceful co-existence, integration, exclusion and diversity, as well as others.
Alejandro García Sanjuán has been a professor of Medieval History at the University of Jaén since 2009. His area of research is medieval peninsular history, with a special focus on the history of Al-Andalus. His most notable recent publications include La conquista islámica de la Península Ibérica y la tergiversación del pasado: del catastrofismo al negacionismo (The Islamic Conquest of the Iberian Peninsula and the Misrepresentation of the Past: From catastrophism to negationaism, Marcial Pons, 2019, second edition); Yihad. La regulación de la guerra en la doctrina islámica clásica (Jihad: The regulation of war in classical Islamic doctrine, Marcial Pons, 2020) and Las sociedades islámicas clásicas (siglos VII-XV). Estructuras, procesos y mentalidades (Classical Islamic Societies [seventh to fifteenth centuries]: Structures, processes and mindsets, Editorial Síntesis, 2021).
