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Article: The Caliphate in the West: An Islamic Political Institution in the Iberian Peninsula.
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- The Historian
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- January 1, 1994
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By David J. Wassertein. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 280. $55.00.)
In this study, which derives directly from his 1985 work on the eleventh-century Iberian peninsula, The Rise and Fall of the Party-Kings: Politics and Society in Islamic Spain, 1002-1086, David J. Wasserstein sketches the history and significance of the caliphate in al-Andalus beginning with its creation in 929 A.D. by the Umayyad ruler Abd al-Rahman III. His primary objective, however, is to determine when the caliphate came to an end.
Very much the detective-scholar, Wasserstein weaves together evidentiary fragments gleaned from the same contemporary chronicles and ...