Contest of Christian and Muslim Spain 1031 – 1157

This book draws upon the latest research findings to chart 130 years of Spanish history, from the fall of the caliphate to the rise and decline of the Hispanic Empire. It is the first account of the period to integrate Christian and Muslim Spain. The autor depicts and analyses the variour societies, cultures and governments of Muslim and Christian Iberia in the centuries of their critical confrontations.

Beginning with the disintegration of the caliphate at Córdoba in the early eleventh century, the autor traces the decline of the Muslim taifa states, and describes and explains their conquest, first by the Murâbit, and then the Muwâhhid fundamentalist Muslim empires of North Africa.