The Andalusi origins of the Berbers?
Building on the contributions of H.T. Norris, Joaquín Vallvé Bermejo, Eduardo Manzano Moreno, Maya Shatzmiller and others about the Berbers, this article uses the difference between the political situation in al‐Andalus and the Maghrib in the eighth century to argue for a possible Andalusi origin of a particular use of the category “Berber.” Since before the Arab conquests the sources did not imagine that the “Berbers” inhabited northwest Africa and that today it is common to do so, the article introduces the idea of a Berberization to account for that transformation. It argues that al‐Andalus was an important early site of production of a specific notion of what Berber meant and seeks to show categories such as Arab and Berber did not refer to an unchanging objective reality and that they did not always carry the same connotations or support the same understandings. Embracing the limits posed by the historical record, the article participates in the effort of historians to replace ideologically informed convictions with a more nuanced delineation of the boundaries of the knowable.
Muslim Spain and Portugal: A Political History of al-Andalus
List of Maps. Acknowledgements. Note on Names and Dates. Glossary. Introduction. 1.The conquest and the age of the Amirs, 711-56. 2.The Umayyad Amirate, 756-852. 3.Muhammad, al-Mundhir and 'Abd Allah: the slide into anarchy, 852-912. 4.The golden age of the Umayyad Caliphate, 912-76. 5.The 'Amirids and the collapse of the Caliphate of Cordoba. 6.The Taifa Kingdoms. 7.The Empire of the Almoravids. 8. The second Taifas. 9.The early Almohad Caliphate. 10.The later Almohad Caliphate. 11.The Nastrids of Granada. Farewell to al-Andalus. Appendix 1: Govenors of al-Andalus and Taifas Kings. Appendix 2: Family trees of the ruling dynasties of al-Andulus. Bibliography. Maps. Index
Le paysage protohistorique et pré-impérial à l'est et au sud de Zaghouan (Tunisie)
Cet article s'insere dans une serie d'etudes consacrees aux vestiges pre-imperiaux de Farriere-pays de Carthage ( Ant. afr. , t. 23, 1987 et 26, 1990 ; IVe colloque sur l'histoire et l'archeologie de l'Afrique du Nord , Strasbourg 1988 (t. 1, 1990)). Il concerne plus particulierement la region qui s'etend a l'est et au sud de Zaghouan, caracterisee par une densite relativement importante de sites fortifies : petits centres proto-urbains, places fortes perchees, postes et refuges, souvent occupes des l'epoque punique. Parmi les vestiges pre-imperiaux, figurent egalement des habitats depourvus de remparts, des necropoles protohistoriques et des mausolees-tours.