2024
History of Al-Andalus
Name: History of Al-Andalus
Code: HIS02444L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
History
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
To know the major historical dynamics of an Islamic society existing in the Iberian Peninsula during the medieval period.
Following a multi-disciplinary approach, in seminar classes, involving data from History but also from Literature, Geography and Archaeology, is intended to use written sources of Arabic origin, and address, innovatively, topics about those centuries of Arab-Islamic presence in the Iberian Peninsula. It is intended to propose innovative studies on personalities, periods, regions, but also on social, economic, artistic, not to mention the thought of some of its most important figures. The parallels with other societies - from the Iberian Peninsula and the Islamic world - will be inevitable. Through this dynamic, it is intended to develop skills of critical and autonomous work.
Following a multi-disciplinary approach, in seminar classes, involving data from History but also from Literature, Geography and Archaeology, is intended to use written sources of Arabic origin, and address, innovatively, topics about those centuries of Arab-Islamic presence in the Iberian Peninsula. It is intended to propose innovative studies on personalities, periods, regions, but also on social, economic, artistic, not to mention the thought of some of its most important figures. The parallels with other societies - from the Iberian Peninsula and the Islamic world - will be inevitable. Through this dynamic, it is intended to develop skills of critical and autonomous work.
Contents
I - Al-Andalus - political stages: dependent province of Damascus; Umayyad Emirate; The Caliphate; the Taifa?s Kingdoms; Almoravids and Almohads; the Kingdom of Granada;
II - Society;
III - Economy;
IV - Spaces and quotidian;
V - Religious and intellectual Life;
VI - Arts;
VII - Gharb al-Andalus.
II - Society;
III - Economy;
IV - Spaces and quotidian;
V - Religious and intellectual Life;
VI - Arts;
VII - Gharb al-Andalus.
Teaching Methods
Teaching with lecture-seminars, classes must contextualize issues that surround the main issues under study, through case studies, discussion of proposed work and research as well as presentation, discussion and ongoing monitoring of individual research being washed out.
The evaluation will be done through a reasoned offer of individual research work and a short essay / research paper individually.
The evaluation will be done through a reasoned offer of individual research work and a short essay / research paper individually.
Teaching Staff (2023/2024 )
- Fernando Manuel Rodrigues Branco Correia [responsible]
