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W. Montgomery Watt; additional sections on literature by Pierre Cachia.
A History of Islamic Spain.
Publisher: Edinburgh U.P., 1965.
Series: Islamic Surveys, no. 4.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: R&R Clark, Edinburgh.
Size: 133x204x20mm.
Page count: x,210pp inc. 2 maps, plus 16 pages of plates, all monochrome.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: this copy has no dustjacket; boards a little grubby with the spine slightly discoloured; some foxing to the page edges; previous owner’s name in ink on the front endpaper, and at least 6 pages have some pencilled sidelining in the margins.


This item £15.00
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[Publisher’s price for paperback £23.99]
Weight without packaging: 406g.

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Contents: Muslim conquest; Province of the Damascus caliphate; Independent Umayyad emirate; Grandeur of the Umayyad caliphate; Cultural achievements under the Umayyads; Collapse of Arab rule; Berber empires — the Almovarids — The Almohads; Cultural greatness in political decline; The last of Islamic Spain; Significance of Islamic Spain.


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