Islamicization or Islamicizations? Expansion of Islam and social practice in the Vega of Granada (south-east Spain)

This study strives to understand Islamicisation from a social point of view, rather than related only to the religious conversion or to a set of specific Islamic material manifestations. A historical context is considered as a case study. The period of the Islamicisation in the Vega of Granada (sout...

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Autor: Carvajal López, José C.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/353282
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/353282
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84876966551
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Islam | Islamic Archaeology
Archaeology in Iberia
Archaeology of Religion
Early Islamic Period
Early Medieval Archaeology
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Sumario:This study strives to understand Islamicisation from a social point of view, rather than related only to the religious conversion or to a set of specific Islamic material manifestations. A historical context is considered as a case study. The period of the Islamicisation in the Vega of Granada (south east Spain) lasted from the 8th to the 11th centuries CE. The process of social change in this context is described using a combination of historical and archaeological sources, and then insights are made on the relation of such changes with the form of Islam that was adopted. The results point to two distinctive periods that are related with a different form of Islam and therefore, arguably, with two different islamicisations. © 2013 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.