A Companion to Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Cordoba cover the history and culture of Roman, late antique, Visigoth and al-Andalus Cordoba in nineteen contributions, from the foundation of the city in the 169/168 B.C. by the praetor Marcus Claudius Marcellus to the end of the Muslim period in 1236 B.C., when the city fell into the hands of Ferdinand III the Saint, King of Castile.
Making use of archaeological data and historical sources, combined with the latest research on the various fields under study, its authors give a compelling account of Cordoba’s most important archaeological, urban, political, legal, social, cultural and religious facets throughout the most exciting fifteen centuries of the city.
How an Earthquake Shaped the Foundations of a New City: Cordoba from the 3rd to the 5th Century AD — Carlos Márquez and Antonio Monterroso-Checa
Rich Corduba on the Quiet Baetis: Politics, Society, and Economy in a Hispanic Provincial Capital between the 3rd and 5th Centuries — Sabine Panzram
Corduba and the Byzantine Expansion in the Western Mediterranean — Jaime Vizcaíno-Sánchez
The Role of Culture in a World in Transition: Iberia between the Romans and the Arabs — Esther Sánchez-Medina
Christianity: The Architecture of a New Faith (4th–7th Century) — María de los Ángeles Utrero Agudo and Alejandro Villa del Castillo
The City in New Hands — Xavier Ballestín-Navarro
Qurṭuba in Arabic Written Sources (8th–13th Century) — Alejandro García-Sanjuán
A City for Muslim Power: Topography, Spaces, and Administration — Mohamed Meouak
The Medina: The Old City of Cordoba — Alberto León Muñoz and Alberto Javier Montejo Córdoba
The Suburbs of the Greatest City in the West — Juan Francisco Murillo Redondo and María Teresa Casal-García
The Christian and Islamic Population of Cercadilla, Cordoba: 7th–12th Century — Mª del Camino Fuertes Santos and Rafael Hidalgo Prieto
The Ceremonial Ensemble of the Umayyad Caliphate at Madīnat al-Zahrāʾ — Antonio Vallejo-Triano
When the Stones Speak: Believing, Living, and Dying in Qurṭuba. The Arabic Epigraphy — María Antonia Martínez-Núñez
The Jews of Cordoba — José Martínez Delgado
The Arabicized Christians in Cordoba: Social Context and Literary Production — Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala
Faiths in Contact: Santa Clara, an Overlapping Building through Centuries — José Ignacio Murillo-Fragero
Literature in Qurṭuba — Pedro Buendía
Córdoba as a Scientific Center — Julio Samsó
Fine Arts in Qurṭuba — José Miguel Puerta Vílchez