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History of al-Andalus

Objectives

a) to recognize the History of Classical Islam as scientific domain essential for a critical view of the history of mankind;
b) to understand the History of al-Andalus as a paradigm of Mediterranean civilization;
c) to know and interpret, in a synchronic and diachronic perspective, the process of Islamization, Arabization, and
Berberização orientalization the Iberian Peninsula, and in particular, the current Portuguese territory, between the eighth and fifteenth centuries;
d) to identify and relate the necessary elements for building and sustaining critical historiographical discourse from a wide range of typological sources;
e) to Understand the dynamics of the field of action and the latest trends and updated scientific production plans of historiographical analysis and synthesis;
f) to be able to explain what they have learned so problematizing, using specific vocabulary and incorporated them into the conceptual universe of its own discipline;

General characterization

Code

01101041

Credits

6.0

Responsible teacher

Santiago Augusto Ferreira Macias

Hours

Weekly - 4

Total - 168

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

None

Bibliography

GUICHARD, Pierre, Al-Andalus. 711-1492, Paris, Hachette Littératures, 2000;
PICARD, Christophe, Le Portugal musulman (VIIIe-XIIIe siècle). L’Occident d’al-Andalus sous domination islamique, Paris, Maisonneuve et Larose, 2000;
KENNEDY, Hugh, Muslim Spain and Portugal. A political history of al-Andalus, Londres, Longman, 1996;
HUICI de MIRANDA, M.A., Historia Política del Imperio Almohade, tomos I-II (ed. facsimile) (intr. E. Molina López e V. Navarro Oltra), Granada, Universidad de Granada, 2000
COELHO, António Borges, Portugal na Espanha Árabe, 4 vols., Lisboa, Seara Nova, 1972-1975.

Teaching method

Lectures (60%) and practical classes (40%), based on the presentation and discussion of the contents of the course, using various audiovisual media.

Evaluation method

Evaluation Method - Study visits, written test (60%), individual research work(20%), individual research work(20%)

Subject matter

1.Introduction to the History of al-Andalus;
2. Al-Andalus: junctures of Islamization, Arabization, and orientalization;
3. Gharb al-Andalus: the construction of a regional identity;
4. Islam and Western Christianity: convergence to divergence of interests