HIST-338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Abd-Ar-Rahman Iii, Iberian Peninsula, Reccared I
28 Nov 2020
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In 587, king reccared of the visigoths converted to the nicene position. Forces loyal to the umayyad caliph landed in hispania in 711. In under a decade, most of the peninsula was put in the caliphate. Only small parts of resistance were in the north. By the time the abbasids rose, the remnants of the umayyad dynasty saw al-andalus as a potential safe haven. Umayyad rulers clung to power in urban centers like cordoba. The first leader to rule over al-andalus was abd ar-rahman i. He began to adorn cordoba with architecture marvelling anything in western europe. The mosque of cordoba rivalled other umayyad achievements. Like the mosque of damascus and dome of the rock. Over the next 200 years, cordoba became a metropolitian hub of scholarship and artistic creativity. They were akin to sultans and emirs who were beginning to populate the borders of the islamic world.
