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The origin of Al-Andalus: Keys to a historiographical debate
From October 17, 2018 until October 22, 20187:00 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62).
7:00 p.m.
Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
In Spanish.
This series of two conferences, coordinated by Alejandro García Sanjuán,
will be held on the dates of October 17 and 22 at the Casa Árabe
headquarters in Madrid.
The conferences will focus on the origin of Al-Andalus, a traditionally controversial topic in Spain’s historical studies 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 Spania” which the Latin chronicles speak of.
Interest about 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 remove 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 from the world of academia by many researchers, though this has not kept them from being revived recently by certain sectors for various reasons.
Event brochure
Wednesday, October 17 (7:00 p.m.): Historiographical debate over the Conquest
Speakers: E. Manzano and P. Martínez Montávez
Monday, October 22 (7:00 p.m.): Sources on the Conquest
Speakers: Carlos de Ayala (Latin sources) and Maribel Fierro (Arabic sources)
Recommended bibliography:
Chalmeta Gendrón, Pedro: Invasión e islamización. La sumisión de Hispania y la formación de al-Andalus (Invasion and Islamization: The submission of Hispania and the formation of Al-Andalus). Madrid, Mapfre, 2004.
Clarke, Nicola: The Muslim Conquest of Iberia. Medieval Arabic Narratives. London, Routledge, 2012.
Collins, Roger: The Arab Conquest, 710-797. Barcelona, Crítica, 1991.
García Moreno, Luis: España 702-719. La conquista musulmana (Spain 702-719: The Muslim Conquest). University of Seville, 2013.
García Moreno, Luis A. and Viguera Molins, Mª Jesús (editors): Del Nilo al Ebro. Estudios sobre las fuentes de la conquista islámica (From the Nile to the Ebro: Studies on sources for the Islamic Conquest). University of Alcalá de Henares, 2009.
García Moreno, Luis A. and Sánchez Medina, Esther (editors): Del Nilo al Guadalquivir. II Estudios sobre las fuentes de la conquista islámica (From the Nile to the Guadalquivir: Second Studies on sources for the Islamic Conquest). Madrid, Royal Academy of History, 2013.
Alejandro García Sanjuán: 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 Manipulation of the Past: From catastrophism to negationism). Madrid, Marcial Pons, 2013.
Manzano Moreno, Eduardo: Conquistadores, emires y califas (Conquerors, Emirs and Caliphs). Barcelona, Crítica, 2006.
Sénac, Philippe and Ibrahim, Tawfiq: Los precintos de la conquista omeya y la formación de al-Andalus (711-756) (Sealing the Umayyad Conquest and the Formation of Al-Andalus [711-756]). University of Granada, 2017.
Interest about 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 remove 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 from the world of academia by many researchers, though this has not kept them from being revived recently by certain sectors for various reasons.
Event brochure
Session schedule:
Wednesday, October 17 (7:00 p.m.): Historiographical debate over the Conquest
Speakers: E. Manzano and P. Martínez Montávez
Monday, October 22 (7:00 p.m.): Sources on the Conquest
Speakers: Carlos de Ayala (Latin sources) and Maribel Fierro (Arabic sources)
Recommended bibliography:
Chalmeta Gendrón, Pedro: Invasión e islamización. La sumisión de Hispania y la formación de al-Andalus (Invasion and Islamization: The submission of Hispania and the formation of Al-Andalus). Madrid, Mapfre, 2004.
Clarke, Nicola: The Muslim Conquest of Iberia. Medieval Arabic Narratives. London, Routledge, 2012.
Collins, Roger: The Arab Conquest, 710-797. Barcelona, Crítica, 1991.
García Moreno, Luis: España 702-719. La conquista musulmana (Spain 702-719: The Muslim Conquest). University of Seville, 2013.
García Moreno, Luis A. and Viguera Molins, Mª Jesús (editors): Del Nilo al Ebro. Estudios sobre las fuentes de la conquista islámica (From the Nile to the Ebro: Studies on sources for the Islamic Conquest). University of Alcalá de Henares, 2009.
García Moreno, Luis A. and Sánchez Medina, Esther (editors): Del Nilo al Guadalquivir. II Estudios sobre las fuentes de la conquista islámica (From the Nile to the Guadalquivir: Second Studies on sources for the Islamic Conquest). Madrid, Royal Academy of History, 2013.
Alejandro García Sanjuán: 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 Manipulation of the Past: From catastrophism to negationism). Madrid, Marcial Pons, 2013.
Manzano Moreno, Eduardo: Conquistadores, emires y califas (Conquerors, Emirs and Caliphs). Barcelona, Crítica, 2006.
Sénac, Philippe and Ibrahim, Tawfiq: Los precintos de la conquista omeya y la formación de al-Andalus (711-756) (Sealing the Umayyad Conquest and the Formation of Al-Andalus [711-756]). University of Granada, 2017.
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