From: The Historian | Date: January 1, 1994| Author: Perkins, Kenneth J. | COPYRIGHT 1994 Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

By David J. Wassertein. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 280. $55.00.)

In this study, which derives directly from his 1985 work on the eleventh-century Iberian peninsula, The Rise and Fall of the Party-Kings: Politics and Society in Islamic Spain, 1002-1086, David J. Wasserstein sketches the history and significance of the caliphate in al-Andalus beginning with its creation in 929 A.D. by the Umayyad ruler Abd al-Rahman III. His primary objective, however, is to ...