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Title: Arabic Spain : sidelights on her history and art
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Whishaw, Bernhard Whishaw, Allen Mary
Subjects: Art, Byzantine Arabs -- Spain Spain -- History
Publisher: London : Smith
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e, W. M. Flinders, Egyptian Decorative Art, Methuen, 1895.Pineda, Memorial para la canonizacion del Bey Fernando III.,Seville, 1627. BIBLIOGRAPHY xv Pons, F., Historiadores y Geografos ardbigo-esjoarloles, Madrid, 1898.Pons, F., Escrituras Mozdrahcs Tolcclanas, Madrid, 1897.Eemiro, M. G., Historia de Murcia musiilmana, Zaragoza, 1905.Eios, Amador de los, Inscripciones drahes de Sevilla, Madrid, 1875.Rodriguez, M., Memorias imra la vida de Fernando III., Madrid,1800. ScHOTT, Hispania illustrata, 5 vols., Frankfort, 1603. Serrano, M., Glorias Sevillanas, Seville, 1893. Serrano, M., Tradiciones Sevillanas, Seville, 1895. Sharp, Mary, Point and Pillow Lace, 2nd ed., Murray, 1905. SiMONET, L. J., Historia de los Mozdrabes, Madrid, 1903. Strabo, Geography, Bohns trans., 3 vols., 1854. Watts, H. E., Spain (Story of Nations), 3rd ed., Unwin, n.d. Williams, Leonard, The Arts and Crafts of Older Spain, 3 vols., Foulis, London and Edinburgh, 1907.Zuxiga, Analcs de Sevilla, 5 vols., Madrid, 1795.
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INTRODUCTION The history of Moslem Spain has still to be written. Thematerial, of which there is a great quantity, is very largelyin MS., and of the comparatively few Arabic texts whichhave been printed only a small number have been translatedinto any European language. Until the wealth of documentsrelating to Spain, now hidden away not only in the Escorialand other hbraries of Europe, but also in Egypt and Morocco,has been unearthed and pubhshed, any account of thismost interesting period of history must be provisional andlargely conjectural. Years ago, when we first came to hve in Spain, we tried,like every one else interested in the country, to obtain bookswhich would afford some information about the rise anddevelopment of Moslem art in Seville. We were very soonconvinced of the falsity of the assertion, m often made by thelocal archaeologists, that every trace of Arabic art previousto the occupation by the Almohades had totally disappearedfrom this city; while the extraordinary i

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