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Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Selected Sources: Iberia
Contents
General
There is not enoughe material available in etext form, as yet, about medieval Spain and
Portugal.
Visigothic Spain
Al-Andulus: Moorish Spain
- Ibn Abd-el-Hakem: The Islamic Conquest of Spain .
- Al Maggari: Tarik's Address to His Soldiers, 711 CE,
from The Breath of Perfumes
- The Poetry of the Spanish Moors, Selections
- Kenneth Baxter: Christian Martyrs in Muslim Spain (Cambridge University Press, 1988) [At Libro]
- Bibliography of Translated Texts from Medieval/Early Modern Iberia and North Africa [At Ballandalus][Internet Archive version here]
A non-exhaustive list of texts and documents from medieval/early modern Iberia and North Africa (covering roughly the period 500-1700) that have been translated into English. Maintained by Mohamad Ballan.
- A Hispano-Muslim Embassy to the Vikings in 845: An Account of al-Ghazal’s Journey to the North, 845, trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
- ‘Abd Allah bin Buluggin, Emir of Granada 1073-90: Warfare in Eleventh-Century Spain (Al-Andalus), according to The Tibyan, trans translated by Amin T Tibi [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
- ‘Abd al-Wahid al Marrakushi (13th Century): The Battle of Zallaqa, 1086 [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
- Zirid Emir Abdullah ibn Buluggin (d. 1090): On the Reputation of Dynasties, trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
- Abu al-Walid ibn al-Hajj (d. 1318): The Reign of Ibn Hud (r. 1228-1238), trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
The reign of Abū’Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Hūd al-Judhamī (r. 625–635/1228–1238), an Andalusi emir who controlled much of al-Andalus in the early 13th century following the weakening of the Almohads.
- The Poetry of the Spanish Moors, Selections
- Mawlid Poetry from the Morisco Period of al-Andalus (Commemorating the Birth of Mohammad), trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
- Muslim accounts of warfare in al-Andalus [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
- ‘Abd Allah bin Buluggin, Emir of Granada 1073-90: Warfare in Eleventh-Century Spain (Al-Andalus), according to The Tibyan, trans translated by Amin T Tibi [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
- ‘Abd al-Wahid al Marrakushi (13th Century): The Battle of Zallaqa, 1086 [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
- Ismā‘īl ibn al-Aḥmar (d. 1407): The Expulsion of Qadi Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi (d. 1148) from Seville, trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
- 27 Prominent Medieval Andalusi Women, trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
Biographies of medieval Andalusi women are drawn from the Kitāb al-Ṣilah of Ibn Bashkuwal (d. 1183), the Takmilat Kitāb al-Ṣilah by Ibn al-Abbar (d. 1260), and the Kitāb Ṣilat al-Ṣila by Ibn al-Zubayr (d. 1308).
- Ibn Bashkuwal (d. 1183): Prominent Andalusi Muslim Women: A Short List from Kitab al-Silla, trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
- Lisān al-Dīn Muhammad b. ‘Abd Allāh ibn al-Khaṭīb al-Salmānī (d. 1374): The Commemoration of the Martyrdom of al-Husayn b. Ali (d. 680) in al-Andalus, trans Mohammed Ballan [At Ballandalus] [Internet Archive version here]
The "Reconquista"
Leon and Castile
Aragon
Portugal
The Life of Christian Spain
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Arxiu, Capitular of Vic,
Various translated texts.[At Libro]
- Leyenda de Santiago (translated by William Granger Ryan).[At UCLA] This version of the Legend of Santiago
is taken from The Golden Legend, by Jacobus de Voragine. The page contains
links to other legends about medieval Spanish pilgrimage centers [In Spanish.][Was At UCLA, now Internet Archive]
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Spill: A Fictional Pilgrimage from Valencia to Santiago in the Fifteenth Century, From the Spill or Book of Women by the fifteenth-century Valencian medical doctor, Jaume Roig.[Was At
UCLA, now Internet Archive]
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Indulgences granted to
the Confraternity of Belchite, 1136. [At Libro]
- available 10/24/2000
- Robert Southey: The Chronicle of the
Cid, 1637, full text, but not entirely a translation of any one Spanish text [At
Project Gutenberg]. See also
Catholic Encyclopedia: EL CID
- The Lay of the Cid (Translation:
R.Selden Rose& L. Bacon) [OMACL 30]
Seferad: Jewish Spain
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Benjamin of Tudela (1160-1173): The Itinerary of Benjamin of
Tudela Critical Text, Translation and Commentary by Marcus Nathan Adler. [At Traveling
to Jerusalem/U Sth Colorado]
- Maimonides (1138-1204): Letter to Obadiah the Proselyte [Internet Archive]
- Royal Grants to the Jewish Community of Barcelona,
1241-1271, trans. Elka Klein
- Barcelona Jewish Court Documents: A Jewish Widow and
her Daughter, 1261-1262, trans. Elka Klein
- Barcelona Jewish Court Documents: A Daughter's
Inheritance, 1293, trans. Elka Klein
- Jewish Community of Barcelona: The Book of
Document Forms, 13th century, trans. Elka Klein
- Jewish Views of Royal Monetary
Policy in Aragon, 13th Century, trans. Elka Klein.
- The Siete Partidas: Concerning Jews,
1265.
- Judah Ha-Levi (ca 1075-1141): The Kuzari, also known as The Book of Argument and Proof in Defense of the Despised Faith (Kitab al
Khazari). Or here [Wikisource]
The entire first book of the Kuzari, a philosophical treatise written by the
Spanish Jewish philosopher and poet, Judah Ha-Levi. It is written in the form of a
dialogue, purportedly between the king of the Khazars and the representatives of various
belief systems, culminating with a rabbi.
- Jews and Christians in Teruel: The Fuero of Teruel,
1176 CE, trans. Elka Klein
Excerpts from the Fuero, or urban ordinance.
- A Business Partnership between a Jew and
Christian in Barcelona, 1235-1242 CE
Documents on exploitation of royal mills by Jews and Christians in Barcelona.
- Ordinance of the Jews of the Crown of
Aragon, 1354 CE
This ordinance or takkanah was the product of an increased sense of Jewish
vulnerability in the years after the Black Death (1348).
- Synod of Castilian Jews, 1432
Ordinances from assembly of the Jews of the kingdom of Castile at Valladolid in
1432.
- The Expulsion from
Spain, 1492
Account by an Italian Jew.
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