Al-Andalus en la historiografía francesa: un breve balance de la cuestión

Abstract

Three different periods can be outlined within the French historiographic evolution of studies focusing on al-Andalus from the 19th century to the present: first, in the 1960s, with the independence of Maghreb countries, there was a big movement of translations of Arabic texts related to the conquest of North Africa and the Moslem West, as well as an increasing interest in al-Andalus, marked by the works of E. Lévi-Provençal; second, during more than thirty years a multitude of works have appeared and doctoral dissertations have been presented on the history and archaeology of al-Andalus; and third: there is an evolution towards a new discovery of the western Mediterranean and the Maghreb, with the study of al-Andalus issues starting to diminish, especially within the archaeological field due to the economic difficult context.