cUmar b. Ḥafṣūn, the famous anti-Umayyad rebel in al-Andalus in the ninth century, laid claim at one stage in his career to a long and distinguished ancestry, including several generations of Muslims and four Christian generations. In this article I argue that the ancestry is an invention, invented to serve immediate political needs. There is no reason to suppose it genuine; we have no other example of such a genealogy from the Islamic world and scarcely any from anywhere else; and the genealogy presents other problems. The consequences of this are of some significance: first, understanding the genealogy as an invention enables us to understand the career of Ibn Ḥafṣūn himself in a different light, and the better to assess what he was doing...
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This work is part of a project undertaken by the co-authors on ‘Interfaith relations in medieval I...
The life trajectory of Ibn Taghrībirdī and his career has stirred considerable curiosity and interes...
This article explores how Ibn al-Khaṭīb’s historiographical perspective informed an Andalusī vision ...
The article considers the chapter of Ibn Ḥayyān in the Dhakhīra of Ibn Bassām from two different per...
This article revisits the question of the genealogical origins of the Cordoban Mālikī jurist and Ash...
The most famous dissenter of the Umayyad times in Spain, Umar ibn Hafsûn (act. 880-917) actually tur...
International audienceSummary :This article analyzes how an Andalusian author of the Naṣrid period, ...
This article deals with the views of Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba (d. 456/1064) on the concept of fiṭra, whic...
As ambivalent as it is divisive, the figure of Ibn Ḥazm highlights narrative strategies and the memo...
In the year 711 Ṭāriq ibn Ziyād and Mūsā ibn Nuṣayr launched the conquest of al-Andalus from Ifrīqiy...
The article examines Muḥammad b. Ḥabīb’s historical writing in Kitāb al-Muḥabbar in terms of chronol...
The tradition is widespread in the Arab world which associates Ishmael and his descendants with Arab...
The goal of my research is to put together from scattered mosaics an intellectual portrait of Ibn al...
This paper concerns the negotiation of the medieval history of Islamic Spain for the purposes of ide...
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