Perspectives andalouses sur le Sahara (iie/viiie-ve/xie siècle)
In much of Western historiography, the Sahara was misconstrued as a foreign, distant and out of range world to the Andalusian who lived in the Umayyad era (2nd/8th- 5th/11th centuries). However, data collection from a variety of sources provides new insights into that history. As it turns out, on th...
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| Language: | English |
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Université de Provence
2021-09-01
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| Series: | Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/remmm/15749 |
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| Summary: | In much of Western historiography, the Sahara was misconstrued as a foreign, distant and out of range world to the Andalusian who lived in the Umayyad era (2nd/8th- 5th/11th centuries). However, data collection from a variety of sources provides new insights into that history. As it turns out, on the eve of the fitna of the 5th/11th century, political actors, especially representatives of the Umayyad Caliphate, considered the Sahara as the backyard of an imperial space articulated around a number of Saharan trading centres, including Sijilmāsa. Research to date has tended to focus on trade in gold to the exclusion of diverse other commodities. From a more global perspective, Trans-Saharan traffic fulfilled a more central function, namely the connection of economic spaces on a larger scale, including al-Andalus, the Maghrib, the Sahel and tropical Africa. |
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| ISSN: | 0997-1327 2105-2271 |