Legal and religious consideration of the Spanish plateau and northern peninsular territories by the Muslim power of al-Andalus

Partiendo de unos textos de carácter jurídico-económico de al-Dāwūdī (ob. c. 402/1011-12), se analiza el estatuto legal de las tierras de la meseta y el norte peninsular. Anexionadas en un principio a al-Andalus, abandonadas luego y finalmente transfronterizas, aunque las fuentes históricas las sitúan fuera del estado musulmán, en base a otros textos jurídico-religiosos se concluye que hasta el s. XI estos territorios se consideran bajo soberanía musulmana: como antigua conquista y por estar habitados por gentes con los que se firman pactos más o menos regularmente. Como es sabido, desde el Norte la visión era la opuesta.On the basis of some of al-Dāwūdī legal and economic texts, the legal statute of the Spanish plateau and northern peninsular land is analysed. These territories were first annexed to al-Andalus, then abandoned, and finally regarded as bordering land, though the historical sources place them beyond the Muslim state. This study shows, according to other legal and religious texts, that up to the eleventh century this land was considered to be under Muslim rule, both because it was previously conquered and inhabited by people with whom agreements were negotiated. As it is known the north held an opposed vision