Formation of Al-Andalus History and Society Book

	Acknowledgements	vii
	General Editor's Preface	xi
	Introduction	xiii
1	The Itineraries of the Muslim Conquest of al-Andalus in the Light of a New Source: Ibn al-Shabbat	1
2	The Muslim Settlement of Spania/al-Andalus	13
3	Al-Andalus and Gothica Sors	39
4	The Social Structure of al-Andalus during the Muslim Occupation (711-55) and the Founding of the Umayyad Monarchy	51
5	The Settlement and Organisation of the Syrian Junds in al-Andalus	85
6	An Arab among Muwallads: Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Salam al-Khushani	115
7	The Population of the Region of Valencia during the First Two Centuries of Muslim Domination	129
8	Mozarabs: an Emblematic Christian Minority in Islamic al-Andalus	183
9	From the Roman to the Arab: the Rise of the City of Murcia	205
10	From Civitas to Madina: Destruction and Formation of the City in South-East al-Andalus--the Archaeological Debate	217
11	Cities Founded by the Muslims in al-Andalus	265
12	Four Questions in Connection with Ibn Hafsun	291
13	From the Sikkat al-Andalus to the Mint of Madinat al-Zahra'	329
14	Settlement and Fortification in Southern al-Andalus: the Formation of a Land of Husun	347
15	Considerations with Respect to "al-Thaghr in al-Andalus" and the Political-Administrative Division of Muslim Spain	377
16	The "Zalmedina" of Cordoba	389
17	The Manifest Caliph: Umayyad Ceremony in Cordoba, or the Staging of Power	425
18	Eastern Influences in al-Andalus	457
19	The Structure of the Family in al-Andalus	469
	Index	485