Lost Civilization: The Contested Islamic Past in Spain and Portugal
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Lost Civilization: The Contested Islamic Past in Spain and Portugal
By (Author) James L Boone
Edited by Dr Richard Hodges
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Bristol Classical Press
15th January 2009
United Kingdom
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
European history: medieval period, middle ages
946.00882971
Physical Properties
Paperback
144
Width 135mm, Height 216mm, Spine 18mm
Description
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.
Reviews
Boone's Lost civilization is a valuable essay upon the history of Islamic civilisation in the Iberian peninsula. * Antiquity (December 2010) *
Author Bio
James L. Boone is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico
