This series of conferences will focus on the origin of Al-Andalus, a traditionally controversial topic in Spain’s historiography due to, amongst many other reasons, the predominance of a historiographical perspective that has placed an emphasis on the “disastrous” consequences which the Muslim conquest of 711 is said to have had on the Iberian Peninsula, the famous “ruin of Spain” of which the Latin chronicles speak.

Interest in the origin of Al-Andalus has had new life breathed into it in recent years, above all as a result of the appearance of scholarly publications that have contributed new approaches from different perspectives leading to a renewal in the study of this subject.
 
Within this context, the conferences will deal with the problems that arise from the ideas of deniers who seek to distance the origin of Al-Andalus from the year 711 conquest, ideas whose origin goes back to the figure of Ignacio Olagüe (m. 1974), strongly criticized and refuted in the world of academia by many researchers, though this has not kept such ideas from being revived recently by certain sectors for various reasons.

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