Javier Albarrán
Biographic Data
| ID | 1074972 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Javier Albarrán |
| GIVEN NAMES | Javier |
| FAMILY NAME | Albarrán |
| SIGNATURE | ALBARRÁN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8838-8841 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Natural Disasters and Political Catastrophes
In the year 456/1064, during a campaign described by historians as a proto-Crusade, a Christian coalition conquered the city of Barbastro, a Muslim frontier stronghold in the northern Iberian Peninsula. In his account of the event, the Andalusī historian Ibn Ḥayyān wrote that when news of the defeat reached Córdoba, the entire territory of al-Andalus trembled. A few decades later, in 548/1153, an earthquake struck Syria. The Egyptian chronicler I…
The Wolf King
The Conquest of Conquests
The conquest of Jerusalem by the Crusaders was a harsh and unexpected blow to the Islamic community, a calamity that immediately generated reactions ranging from grieving, to providentialism and calls for jihād. The purpose of this article is to briefly examine the discourse regarding the reconquest of Jerusalem articulated after the fall of al-Quds until its recovery by Saladin in 1187. I will also look at how these discursive strategies intertw…
Sánchez-Albornoz, the Danger of the Fitna, and the Problem of Spanish Unity and History
This article focuses on the almost unknown novel Ben Ammar de Sevilla. Una tragedia en la España de los taifas, written by the famous medievalist Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz (d. 1984), who while paradoxically contributing greatly for the knowledge on the Muslim Iberia and its historiography, at the same time consolidated the 19th century discourses of the Reconquista and the «Hispanized» al-Andalus. The aim of this article is to study, on the one ha…
On Earth or in Poems
Introduction
This special issue arose out of
The Battles of the Umayyads. Remembering War from West to East
The memory of war – and the use of this – is a constant in the Middle Ages and beyond. Within all this war memory, the remembrance of great battles is, perhaps, the most recurrent phenomenon. The pitched battle had an extraordinary impact on the people of the time, which made its remembrance remain alive and dynamic in the collective memory, as moments when the balance of power was seen to have tipped, or when aspects of collective identity were …
This Is Your Miḥrāb
Al-Qayrawān has long been figured, especially in the culture of the Islamic West, as the Islamic city par excellence, as the fourth sacred place after Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem. The prominence of this garrison city-supposedly founded by 'Uqba b. Nāfi' in the year 50/670-671-is undeniable in the traditional account of the Islamic conquest of Ifrīqiyya. Through a case study of al-Qayrawān and an analysis of the sources recounting its miraculous …
Islam triunfante
Este artículo tiene por objeto estudiar las cartas de victoria (kutub al-fat?) del Occidente islámico medieval entre los siglos X-XIII. Es decir, aquellas misivas destinadas a anunciar un triunfo militar. El artículo define estas epístolas y analiza su contenido y características principales, así como su lectura pública y puesta en escena. Asimismo, este análisis se inserta dentro de los debates más amplios sobre la existencia o no de una cultura…
The Maghrib in the Mashriq
Alejandro García Sanjuán. Yihad
of medieval history at the University of Huelva and one of the most prominent scholars of the history of al-Andalus, deals with jihd in classical Islam from a very specific angle: the legal-doctrinal one. 1 This perspective is already evident in the introduction, where Garca Sanjun defines jihd as "legitimate war from the Islamic perspective" (p. 17). 2 And indeed, the sources on which Garca Sanjun bases his book are predominantly legal and doctr…
Forced Conversion in Christianity, Judaism and Islam
Forced Conversion in Christianity, Judaism and Islam: Coercion and Faith in Premodern Iberia and Beyond. Mercedes García-Arenal and Yonatan Glazer-Eytan, eds. Numen Book Series: Studies in the History of Religions 164. Leiden: Brill, 2020. xiv + 418 pp. €143. - Volume 74 Issue 4
The Almohads and the "Qur'anization" of War Narrative and Ritual
The Almohad movement (12th-13th centuries, Islamic West) had in the return to the direct study of the primary sources of Islam-the Qur'an and the Sunna-and in jihād, two of its most important pillars of legitimation and action. In this sense, it is an ideal period to study how both realities-Qur'an and jihād-were linked in a given historical context. During the Almohad period, the use of Qur'anic verses in accounts related to war episodes became …
Memoria y ŷihād en el ocaso del poder almohade
Este trabajo propone redescubrir, contextualizar y poner en valor una obra de magāzī comisionada por el califa almohade al-Murtaḍà, conservada en el manuscrito 296 de la biblioteca de al-Qarawiyyīn (Fez), y que hasta ahora había pasado desapercibida. Esta obra debe ser entendida y leída en el marco del propio contexto almohade en el que fue redactada. A través de esta noticia se analizará el interesante proyecto intelectual y legitimador puesto e…
Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c.1050–1614, by Brian A. Catlos
Journal Article Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c.1050–1614, by Brian A. Catlos Get access Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c.1050–1614 , by Brian A. Catlos ( Cambridge : Cambridge U.P. , 2014 ; pp. 628 . £65 ). Javier AlbarrÁn Javier AlbarrÁn Spanish National Research Council (ILC-CSIC) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 131, Issue 548, February 2016, Pages …
This Is Your Miḥrāb
Al-Qayrawān has long been figured, especially in the culture of the Islamic West, as the Islamic city par excellence, as the fourth sacred place after Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem. The prominence of this garrison city-supposedly founded by 'Uqba b. Nāfi' in the year 50/670-671-is undeniable in the traditional account of the Islamic conquest of Ifrīqiyya. Through a case study of al-Qayrawān and an analysis of the sources recounting its miraculous …
Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c.1050–1614, by Brian A. Catlos
Journal Article Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c.1050–1614, by Brian A. Catlos Get access Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c.1050–1614 , by Brian A. Catlos ( Cambridge : Cambridge U.P. , 2014 ; pp. 628 . £65 ). Javier AlbarrÁn Javier AlbarrÁn Spanish National Research Council (ILC-CSIC) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 131, Issue 548, February 2016, Pages …
Memoria y ŷihād en el ocaso del poder almohade
Este trabajo propone redescubrir, contextualizar y poner en valor una obra de magāzī comisionada por el califa almohade al-Murtaḍà, conservada en el manuscrito 296 de la biblioteca de al-Qarawiyyīn (Fez), y que hasta ahora había pasado desapercibida. Esta obra debe ser entendida y leída en el marco del propio contexto almohade en el que fue redactada. A través de esta noticia se analizará el interesante proyecto intelectual y legitimador puesto e…
Alejandro García Sanjuán. Yihad
of medieval history at the University of Huelva and one of the most prominent scholars of the history of al-Andalus, deals with jihd in classical Islam from a very specific angle: the legal-doctrinal one. 1 This perspective is already evident in the introduction, where Garca Sanjun defines jihd as "legitimate war from the Islamic perspective" (p. 17). 2 And indeed, the sources on which Garca Sanjun bases his book are predominantly legal and doctr…
Forced Conversion in Christianity, Judaism and Islam
Forced Conversion in Christianity, Judaism and Islam: Coercion and Faith in Premodern Iberia and Beyond. Mercedes García-Arenal and Yonatan Glazer-Eytan, eds. Numen Book Series: Studies in the History of Religions 164. Leiden: Brill, 2020. xiv + 418 pp. €143. - Volume 74 Issue 4
The Almohads and the "Qur'anization" of War Narrative and Ritual
The Almohad movement (12th-13th centuries, Islamic West) had in the return to the direct study of the primary sources of Islam-the Qur'an and the Sunna-and in jihād, two of its most important pillars of legitimation and action. In this sense, it is an ideal period to study how both realities-Qur'an and jihād-were linked in a given historical context. During the Almohad period, the use of Qur'anic verses in accounts related to war episodes became …
Islam triunfante
Este artículo tiene por objeto estudiar las cartas de victoria (kutub al-fat?) del Occidente islámico medieval entre los siglos X-XIII. Es decir, aquellas misivas destinadas a anunciar un triunfo militar. El artículo define estas epístolas y analiza su contenido y características principales, así como su lectura pública y puesta en escena. Asimismo, este análisis se inserta dentro de los debates más amplios sobre la existencia o no de una cultura…
The Maghrib in the Mashriq
Introduction
This special issue arose out of
The Battles of the Umayyads. Remembering War from West to East
The memory of war – and the use of this – is a constant in the Middle Ages and beyond. Within all this war memory, the remembrance of great battles is, perhaps, the most recurrent phenomenon. The pitched battle had an extraordinary impact on the people of the time, which made its remembrance remain alive and dynamic in the collective memory, as moments when the balance of power was seen to have tipped, or when aspects of collective identity were …
This Is Your Miḥrāb
Al-Qayrawān has long been figured, especially in the culture of the Islamic West, as the Islamic city par excellence, as the fourth sacred place after Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem. The prominence of this garrison city-supposedly founded by 'Uqba b. Nāfi' in the year 50/670-671-is undeniable in the traditional account of the Islamic conquest of Ifrīqiyya. Through a case study of al-Qayrawān and an analysis of the sources recounting its miraculous …
The Conquest of Conquests
The conquest of Jerusalem by the Crusaders was a harsh and unexpected blow to the Islamic community, a calamity that immediately generated reactions ranging from grieving, to providentialism and calls for jihād. The purpose of this article is to briefly examine the discourse regarding the reconquest of Jerusalem articulated after the fall of al-Quds until its recovery by Saladin in 1187. I will also look at how these discursive strategies intertw…
Sánchez-Albornoz, the Danger of the Fitna, and the Problem of Spanish Unity and History
This article focuses on the almost unknown novel Ben Ammar de Sevilla. Una tragedia en la España de los taifas, written by the famous medievalist Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz (d. 1984), who while paradoxically contributing greatly for the knowledge on the Muslim Iberia and its historiography, at the same time consolidated the 19th century discourses of the Reconquista and the «Hispanized» al-Andalus. The aim of this article is to study, on the one ha…
On Earth or in Poems
Natural Disasters and Political Catastrophes
In the year 456/1064, during a campaign described by historians as a proto-Crusade, a Christian coalition conquered the city of Barbastro, a Muslim frontier stronghold in the northern Iberian Peninsula. In his account of the event, the Andalusī historian Ibn Ḥayyān wrote that when news of the defeat reached Córdoba, the entire territory of al-Andalus trembled. A few decades later, in 548/1153, an earthquake struck Syria. The Egyptian chronicler I…
The Wolf King
Art (8 works) · History (8 works) · Islamic Studies and History (8 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (6 works) · Medieval History and Crusades (6 works) · Humanities (5 works) · Islam (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works)