Chapter 6 The City in New Hands
In: A Companion to Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Cordoba
Author:
Xavier Ballestín-Navarro
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Abstract
This chapter deals with the beginning of Cordoba’s history as an Islamic city. It focuses on the first years of the conquest, the settlement of the Arab armies, Mūsā b. Nuṣayr’s recall to Damascus and the appointment of his son ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz as a replacement after his father’s departure, the murder of ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz at Ishbīliya, and the change of capital from Ishbīliya to the ancient Corduva Patricia, an event associated with al-Ḥurr b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Thaqafī. It also considers the critical question of the reliability of sources written in both Latin and Arabic during the early medieval period.