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Umayyad legacies : medieval memories from Syria to Spain /
The Umayyads, the first dynasty of Islam, ruled over a vast empire from their central province of Syria, providing a line of caliphs from 661 to 750. Another branch later ruled in al-Andalus Islamic Spain from 756 to 1031, ruling first as emirs and then as caliphs themselves. This book is the first...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés Español |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
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| Colección: | Islamic history and civilization ;
v. 80. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The Umayyads, the first dynasty of Islam, ruled over a vast empire from their central province of Syria, providing a line of caliphs from 661 to 750. Another branch later ruled in al-Andalus Islamic Spain from 756 to 1031, ruling first as emirs and then as caliphs themselves. This book is the first to bring together studies of this far-flung family and treat it not as two unrelated caliphates but as a single enterprise. Yet for all that historians have made note of Umayyad accomplishments in the Near East and al-Andalus, Umayyad legacies what later generations made of these caliphs and their a. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xx, 528 pages, 31 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004190986 9004190988 1282952730 9781282952737 |
| ISSN: | 0929-2403 ; |