"While the work covers around 400 years of the history of al-Andalus, nearly two thirds of the book's pages in Molina's edition are devoted to the initial conquest in 711 CE and the tenures of al-Andalus' governors up to the time of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān I's entry in 755 CE. During the tenures of those governors, Muslim rule in Western Europe reached its maximum territorial expansion into what is now southern France, which can thus be seen as a continuation of the initial conquest of al-Andalus."
"Although this anonymous work dates to the 12th century, it remains a valuable source for the first decades of al-Andalus. Its coverage of the Taifa states era in the eleventh century is brief, but still useful. Historians of medieval al-Andalus and Iberia will want a copy. "... al-Tamimi has done a service to medieval studies by providing an English translation of an early history of al-Andalus that can be instructively read with other contemporary narratives."
Fatḥ al-Andalus is an anonymous twelfth-century historical account that spans roughly 400 years of al-Andalus history with a concentrated emphasis on the initial conquest of 711 CE and the period of governance up to 755 CE. Approximately two thirds of the narrative focus on the conquest and the tenures of early governors, linking those tenures to Muslim territorial expansion into southern France. Coverage of the eleventh-century Taifa era is concise but informative. An English translation with scholarly apparatus enables comparison with contemporary narratives and supports research into medieval Iberia and al-Andalus.
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