An Alternative Insight into the First Centuries of Islam on the Iberian Peninsula – Problems of Historiographic Sources Concerning the Early Islamic History of Al-Andalus
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The stream of historical revisionism within the Orientalist scholarship has offered
in recent years a number of intriguing theories attempting to undermine some of the
conventional concepts of the Arab-Muslim early history and religious tradition. Regardless
of their actual scholarly value, they do shed light on various methodological problems
concerning the critical research on early the Islamic historiography, raise sensitive and
stimulating questions, and encourage to think possibly of revising certain axioms of
knowledge about that epoch. This paper endeavours to present briefly an alternative
image of the arrival of Islam on the Iberian Peninsula, as emerging from research by the
revisionist school of West-European scholars called Inārah. Their controversial theory
involving, among others, historical and dogmatic aspects of the development of Islam in
Andalusia, disputes the generally accepted version of historical events beginning with the
8th century C.E. which is largely based on the traditional sources of Arabic historiography.
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