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Lost civilization : the contested Islamic past in Spain and Portugal

Boone, James L

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\"Al-Andalus, the Iberian Islamic civilization centred on Cordoba in the tenth and eleventh centuries, has been a 'lost' civilization in several respects. Its history suppressed or denied for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it was regarded as a kind of 'historical parenthesis' with no lasting influence. Over the past twenty-five years, however, the history and archaeology of the Islamic period in the Iberian peninsula has undergone a complete transformation. Lost Civilization presents an introduction to this debate as it has played out in archaeology, taking a comparative civilizations approach that puts the formation of al-Andalus in context with corresponding developments elsewhere in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.\"--BOOK JACKET.

• Publisher: Duckworth
• Subject: Kultur / Antiquities. / Civilization Islamic influences. / Spain Civilization Islamic influences. / Portugal Civilization Islamic influences. / Spain Antiquities. / Portugal Antiquities. / al- Andalus / Portugal. / Spain.
• ISBN: 0715635689, 9780715635681

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DP53.M87 B66 2009	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE