Chapter One The Conquest and the Age of the Amirs, 711-56; Chapter Two The Umayyad Amirate, 756-852; Chapter Three Mu?ammad, al-Mundhir and 'Abd All?h: the Slide into Anarchy, 852-912; Chapter Four The Golden Age of the Umayyad Caliphate, 912-76; Chapter Five The 'Amirids and the Collapse of the Caliphate of Cordoba; Chapter Six The Taifa Kingdoms; Chapter Seven The Empire of the Almoravids; Chapter Eight The Second Taifas; Chapter Nine The Early Almohad Caliphate; Chapter Ten The Later Almohad Caliphate; Chapter Eleven The Nasrids of Granada;

The first history in English of the political history of Muslim Spain and Portugal, based on vividly translated Arab sources, this volume provides comprehensive coverage of events across the whole of the region from 711 to the fall of Granada in 1492.