History of Al-Andaluz
Code
711051043
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
História
Credits
6
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) to recognize the History of Classical Islam as scientific domain essential for a critical view of the history of mankind;
b) to understand the History of al-Andalus as a paradigm of Mediterranean civilization;
c) to know and interpret, in a synchronic and diachronic perspective, the process of Islamization, Arabization, and Berberização orientalization the Iberian Peninsula, and in particular, the current Portuguese territory, between the eighth and fifteenth centuries;
d) to identify and relate the necessary elements for building and sustaining critical historiographical discourse from a wide range of typological sources;
e) to Understand the dynamics of the field of action and the latest trends and updated scientific production plans of historiographical analysis and synthesis;
f) to be able to explain what they have learned so problematizing, using specific vocabulary and incorporated them into the conceptual universe of its own discipline.
Prerequisites
None
Subject matter
1.Introduction to the History of al-Andalus;
2. Al-Andalus: junctures of Islamization, Arabization, and orientalization;
3. Gharb al-Andalus: the construction of a regional identity;
4. Islam and Western Christianity: convergence to divergence of interests
Bibliography
GUICHARD, Pierre, Al-Andalus. 711-1492, Paris, Hachette Littératures, 2000;
PICARD, Christophe, Le Portugal musulman (VIIIe-XIIIe siècle). LOccident dal-Andalus sous domination islamique, Paris, Maisonneuve et Larose, 2000;
KENNEDY, Hugh, Muslim Spain and Portugal. A political history of al-Andalus, Londres, Longman, 1996;
HUICI de MIRANDA, M.A., Historia Política del Imperio Almohade, tomos I-II (ed. facsimile) (intr. E. Molina López e V. Navarro Oltra), Granada, Universidad de Granada, 2000
COELHO, António Borges, Portugal na Espanha Árabe, 4 vols., Lisboa, Seara Nova, 1972-1975.
Teaching method
Lectures (60%) and practical classes (40%), based on the presentation and discussion of the contents of the course, using various audiovisual media.
Evaluation method
Study visits, written test and two individual research works, with respective weightings of 60%, 20% and 20% in the final mark.