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Abd al Rahman ibn Mu'awiyah ibn Hisham escaped the Abbasids, and succeeded in maintaining the Ummayad line in Spain; the Caliphate lasted until 1031, although little more than nominally in the latter years.

Resources in This Category

• Medieval Sourcebook : Tarik's Address to His Soldiers

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/711Tarik1.html
  Translation of an address to his soldiers in 711 CE by Tarik, the Muslim leader who led the conquest of Spain.

• Medieval Sourcebook : The Battle of Poitiers

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/arab-poitiers732.html
  A translation of an anonymous Arab chronicle about the Battle of Poitiers (or Tours) in 732.

• Omayyad Caliphs of Spain

  http://www.friesian.com/islam.htm#abdur
  An account of the Caliphate in the wider context of the Muslim world; includes a list of the Caliphs.

• The Art of the Umayyad Period in Spain (711-1031 A.D.)

  http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/sumay/hd_sumay.htm
  An online exhibition by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, explores the achievements of this formative period of Hispano-Islamic art and architecture.

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