Download PDF | Janina Safran - The Second Umayyad Caliphate_ The Articulation of Caliphal Legitimacy in Al-Andalus (Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs) -Harvard University Press 2000.
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Acknowledgments
This book began with a question in class: "What about the caliphate in Spain?" A moment of curiosity about the "marginal" Umayyad caliphate in the West eventually developed into an abiding interest in the political culture of al-Andalus. I am grateful to Roy Mottahedeh, Paula Sanders, William Graham, Everett Rowson, and Kristen Brustad for their instruction in Islamic history and religion and Arabic literature and language, and for their inspiration. Over the years I learned much from discussions with fellow students of the Middle East and the Islamic world and from friends with other interests, and I thank you all. I would like to thank a few in particular who listened, probed, and prodded as I began my initial research: Michael Propokow, Joseph O'Donnell, Ben Westervelt, David Bush, and especially Caroline Castiglione and Jim Gelvin.
I am indebted to those who read all or part of the manuscript at different stages and offered their insights and criticisms: Roy Mottahedeh, Susan Miller, Dede Fairchild Ruggles, Tim Gianotti, Dan Beaver, Jim Gelvin, Thomas Glick, and Maribel Fierro. Maribel Fierro, who has written extensively on politics and religion in Umayyad al-Andalus, has been a tremendous resource. She has directed me to Spanish and French scholarship and demonstrated a genuine commitment to international academic exchange. All the shortcomings of the book are, of course, my own. I benefitted greatly from a semester leave granted to junior faculty for research and writing and thank the dean of the College of Liberal Arts of the Pennsylvania State University and the head of the History department for this privilege.
The reader will find some material from chapters one and two published in two articles: "The Command of the Faithful in alAndalus: A Study in the Articulation of Caliphal Legitimacy," International journal of Middle East Studies 30 (1998), 183- 198; and "Ceremony and Submission: The Symbolic Representation and Recognition of Legitimacy in Tenth-Century alAndalus," journal of Near Eastern Studies 58 (1999), 191-201. I thank the editors of these journals for their interest and the readers of the article manuscripts for their contributions. Finally, I would like to thank Barbara, Abby, Liz, Anita, and Nadav for their enduring patience, renewing interest, and enthusiastic support, expressed in many ways over many years. I thank Dan for his rigorous standards and careful comments and especially for his partnership.
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