"The new convivencia". Issue 3 (2nd September 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Fancy, Hussein
• Is Part Of: Journal of medieval Iberian studies. Volume 11:Issue 3(2019)
• Page Start: 295
• Page End: 305
• Publication Date: 2019-09-02
• Subjects: Conquest -- 711 -- al-Andalus -- Andalucia -- Islam -- convivencia -- fascism -- historiography -- Ignacio Olagüe -- Emilio González Ferrín -- Alejandro García Sanjuán; Iberians -- History -- Periodicals; Civilization; Iberians; Iberian Peninsula -- Civilization -- Periodicals; Spain -- Civilization -- 711-1516 -- Periodicals; Portugal -- Civilization -- To 1500 -- Periodicals; Spain -- Civilization -- Periodicals; Europe -- Iberian Peninsula; Portugal; Spain; History; Periodicals; 946.000902
• DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2019.1605242
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1754-6559

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This essay offers an introduction to the recent and impassioned debates between two Spanish Arabists, Emilio González Ferrín and Alejandro García Sanjuán, about the Islamic conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in 711. While offering an overview of the controversy between them and representing their respective positions, it also calls attention to the methodological and philosophical underpinnings of the debate, underpinnings that echo earlier, trenchant disputes about medieval Spain.