Excerpt from Spanish Islam: A History of the Moslems in Spain
This volume presents, for the first time, an English version of a notable work which has remained for half a century the standard authority upon an important and fascinating branch of medieval history.
Notwithstanding an assertion to the contrary which has found its way into several leading works of reference, Reinhart Dozy's Histoire des Musulmans d'Espagne - originally published in 1861 - has never been reprinted, and, having consequently become scarce and costly, is little known except to historical specialists. The reason why no second edition was issued of a book at once so brilliant and so profound will be made apparent in the Biographical Introduction; it is here only necessary to record the fact. In 1874, however, a German translation of the Histoire was made under the direction of Dr. Wolf Wilhelm, Graf von Baudissin, and this version, to which Dozy contributed some emendations of the original, has frequently been consulted during the preparation of the present volume: a Spanish version (by F. de Castro, late Professor of Spanish History in the University of Seville), published in 1877, has also occasionally been found useful for purposes of reference.
In 1881, two years before the historian's death, there appeared the Third Edition - corrected and considerably enlarged - of his Recherches sur l'Histoire et la Litterature de l'Espagne pendant le moyen age: from this work, which is of the highest value to the student of early Spanish history, supplementary notes have been selected, and in some cases additions and corrections thence derived have been embodied in the text.
The present translation is entirely unabridged, and aims at being faithful without being baldly literal: the footnotes have been modified by the omission of those which appealed essentially to Arabic scholars, and the substitution of others of more general interest - selected mainly from the historian's own works and more recent sources.
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