“The Dawn of Al-Andalus” is published

The text, included in Issue 22 of the journal Cuaderno de Almenara by the publishing firm Editorial CantArabia, was the one used for the master conference given by Arabist Pedro Martínez Montávez in the series “The Origin of Al-Andalus: Keys to a historiographical debate,” held at Casa Árabe.

Published at the initiative of professor and Arabist Carmen Ruiz Bravo-Villasante, in Issue 22 of the journal Cuaderno de Almenara (CantArabia-Círculo CantArabia) was the text of the master lecture given by Arabist Pedro Martínez Montávez, titled “The Dawn of Al-Andalus: From Ignacio Olagüe to Ahmad Amin and Husayn Mu’nis.” It is an accurate and necessary review focusing on Al-Andalus’s appearance on the historical stage, stressing the idea that Al-Andalus must be constantly meditated upon, reinterpreted and reformulated as a form of teaching.

The conference series “The Origin of Al-Andalus: Keys to a historiographical debate,” scientifically coordinated by Professor Alejandro García Sanjuan, was officially opened at Casa Árabe on October 9, 2018. Thematically focusing on the origin of Al-Andalus, it addressed the problems and controversies being produced by different deniers who disassociate the origin of Al-Andalus from the conquest in

the year 711; the origin of these ideas goes back to Ignacio Olagüe (d. 1974), and they have been strongly contested and refuted by academia, including many scholars and researchers.

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