Lost Civilization: The Contested Islamic Past in Spain and Portugal

by James L. Boone

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0715635689
• ISBN13: 9780715635681
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.4"