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Al-Hirah, the Nasrids, and Their Legacy: New Perspectives on Late Antique Iranian History
- Author(s):
- Mizan: Journal for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations (view group) , Jesus Lorenzo Jimenez, Isabel Toral-Niehoff
- Editor(s):
- Michael Pregill
- Date:
- 2018
- Group(s):
- Mizan: Journal for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations
- Subject(s):
- Spain, History, Middle Ages, Islam, Iran, Area studies
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Arab conquests, Economics of Islamic empire, Islamic Spain, Medieval Spanish History, Islamic history, Iranian studies, Sasanian Empire
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/3ty6-9y21
- Abstract:
- This paper argues that the famous conqueror of al-Andalus, Mūsā ibn Nuṣayr, who originally came from ʿAyn al-Tamr, a town under the hegemony of Naṣrid al-Ḥīrah, transmitted aspects of Sasanian administrative practice to al-Andalus and hence to Europe, as evidenced by the taxation terms tasca and kafiz attested in Latin and Romance texts. This specific argument is embedded in a larger argument about cultural hybridity centering on the city of al-Ḥīrah as a pre-Islamic and Islamic contact zone among cultures—Roman, Iranian, Arab; Christian, Muslim; tribal and urban. It thus links the processes of transculturation observable in al-Ḥīrah with developments in the far edges of the Islamic world through the person of the conqueror Mūsā b. Nuṣayr.
- Notes:
- This is a stable archival PDF of an open-access, peer-reviewed journal article originally published at www.mizanproject.org/journal/.
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- Published as:
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- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 2 years ago
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- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
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