Early Medieval Spain. Unity in Diversity, 400–1000 (2E)

THE SEVENTH-CENTURY KINGDOM 137 abandon circumcision and all Jewish rites as well as their dietary laws. Anyone who broke one of ...

138 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN and accept that which their own scriptures had foreseen. The second book considered the differences bet ...

THE SEVENTH-CENTURY KINGDOM 139 What really did lie behind the ill-treatment of the Jews in Visigothic Spain, when allowance is ...

140 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN Looking more widely, the seventh century in general was not a good time for the scattered communities o ...

THE SEVENTH-CENTURY KINGDOM 141 drifting and out of control as some modern commentators believe. On the contrary, it was subject ...

142 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN Two of the laws belong to Chindasuinth, two to EIVig and one to Egica.^96 This last, issued in 702, put ...

THE SEVENTH-CENTURY KINGDOM 143 outside of Spain suffered similar losses of legal freedom and endured bondage to the state in la ...

The Arab Conquest The New Masters THE rise of Islam and the creation during the seventh and early eighth centuries of an Arab ...

THE ARAB CONQUEST 145 medieval standards, deplorable. As a result, the detailed working of certain crucial developments cannot b ...

146 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN and was one of the principal centres of a developed polytheistic worship in the peninsula. Mecca's com ...

THE ARAB CONQUEST l47 relatives with military commands and governorships of the newly conquered provinces. He is also said in th ...

148 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN concerning the spread of Islam and of the Arabs need to be consid- ered here. Some major issues, such a ...

THE ARAB CONQUEST 149 liable to enslavement; this was the only legitimate source of slaves by Qu'ranic Jaw. If liberated by thei ...

150 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN population into the ranks of the conquerors, the Arabs and their freedmen could only by themselves cons ...

THE ARAB CONQUEST 151 of Miisa as governor in 705, Berber forces under Arab control were turned westward. Much of the former Rom ...

152 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN written in Spain. Although the Muqtabis has only survived in a frag- mentary state, it is clear that th ...

THE ARAB CONQUEST 153 necessarily incorporated borrowings from their predecessors in their pristine and uncontaminated form. Whe ...

154 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN remained a feature of the accounts of ,the conquests that first started to be written in the ninth cent ...

THE ARAB CONQUEST 155 Mrican sources, and coinciding with the beginning of the reign of the caliph Walid I (705-715), is almost ...

156 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN taken to wearing a crown. However, before he could be removed from office by the caliph, he was murdere ...