Mientras que desde una perspectiva islámica los musulmanes debían ofrecer lealtad primordial a Dios y a Su mensaje, los lazos de parentesco podían poner en tela de juicio ese compromiso. Los ideales islámicos, articulados a través de diversos géneros literarios, reflejan esta tensión, presentando una priorización de la comunidad religiosa sobre la ...
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Tayādhūq, also known as Theodocus/Théodoros (d. early 8th century AD), was educated in the Gondēs̲h̲āpūr School and served the Sassanid kings. During this period, he contacted the Umayyad court and became the physician of Hajjāj ibn Yūsuf (d. 715 AD), the general governor of the Eastern regions of the caliphate. In addition to his knowledge on the ...
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In 317/929, ʽAbd al-Raḥmān III, who was the Umayyad emir of al-Andalus, proclaimed himself caliph. During his reign, he managed to build a very specific political relation between the Iberian peninsula (al-Andalus) and the opposite shore of the Mediterranean (al-ʽidwa), ie. the Far Maghrib. Indeed, while he ordered the conquest of several coastal p...
Dentro de la riquísima literatura producida en el ámbito del califato abasí, el Occidente islámico (es decir al-Andalus, el Magreb, pero también las islas del Mediterráneo occidental) desempeña un papel insignificante, a pesar de las ambiciones universalistas que tenían sus autores. De hecho, este silencio afecta a cada género literario, excepto la...
Across the Strait of Gibraltar, the caliphal sovereignty did not vanish as abruptly as most of the historiography, who sees the fitna as a breakdown, likes to tell us. On the contrary, there are clues showing that the Far Maghrib had the same evolution as al-Andalus, and, more generally, that it kept sharing the same historical trajectory. Indeed, ...
L’échange de cadeaux par le biais des missions diplomatiques envoyées par les cours des souverains musulmans ou reçues par celles-ci était une coutume particulièrement répandue à l’époque médiévale. Parmi ces cadeaux se trouvaient parfois différents types de manuscrits qui, s’ils apparaissent nettement moins fréquemment que les tissus ou les ustens...
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