The Akhbar majmua, or Collected Accounts, deal with the Muslim conquest of the Iberian peninsula in 711 and subsequent events in alAndalus, down to and including the reign of Abd alRahman III (912961), founder of the Umayyad caliphate of alAndalus . No Arabic text dealing with the early history of alAndalus has aroused more controversy, and its contents and origin have occupied the attention of leading scholars of Islamic Spain since its publication in 1867. This book gives the first complete English translation of this key contemporary text, together with notes, comments, appendices and maps. It is introduced by a survey of scholarly opinion on the text from the nineteenth to the twentyfirst century in which all the often heated arguments around the text are explained. The translator concludes his introduction with an indepth examination of the manuscript containing the only surviving copy of the text and presents some interesting new evidence provided by scribe which has gone unnoticed until now. Providing new insights into this significant Arabic text, this book will be of great interest to scholars of the history of Spain and Portugal, Islamic history, and Mediaeval European history.

Binding: Paperback;210 pages; Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales); Classification: HBJD; Weight: 382 g; Dimensions: 217 x 138 x 12

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