Sword and Scimitar by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2018-08-28T00:00:00+00:00

For Muslims, the frontier zone became “a territory where one fights for the faith and a permanent place of the ribat.”13 Military manuals compiled along the original ribats of Anatolia—chief among them Abdallah bin Mubarak’s Kitab al-Jihad—were republished in Spain. There “they enjoyed uninterrupted popularity, even more than in their homelands.… Above all, interest in historical narratives of sira and maghazi [the biography and jihad campaigns of Muhammad respectively] remained strong in al-Andalus.”14 Because “service in the holy war, according to Muhammad, was the most meritorious of all works,” the “opportunity to participate in the holy war in Spain and to obtain religious merit and even entrance into paradise drew many volunteers to the peninsula.” Indeed, men such as governor Uqba bin al-Hajjaj (r. 734–740)—described by a tenth-century Arab chronicler as “a courageous champion of jihad, frontier warrior [murabit], intrepid and valiant, burning in his desire to hurt the polytheists [trinitarian Christians]”15—were common.

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