Identifier: arabicspainsidel00whisuoft (find matches)
Title: Arabic Spain : sidelights on her history and art
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Whishaw, Bernhard Whishaw, Allen Mary
Subjects: Art, Byzantine Arabs -- Spain Spain -- History
Publisher: London : Smith
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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tremble, and failed by very httle to drive out the alienconquerors and to re-establish a Gothic dynasty in Spain.The Beni Said, the Beni Moslemah, and the Beni Hejjaj,who sprang from a Gothic-Yemenite alUance, gave to theworld men of letters as well as men of war. The Hafsunsdepended for their eminence on their military quahties alone,and when they could no longer fight, they disappeared fromhistory. But their story shows as plainly as does that of thedescendants of Sara, that the surrender of Spain in 711was due to other causes than the decay of the old martialspirit of the Goths, since the descendants of the men who atthe beginning of the eighth century gave way almost withoutan effort to the invader, were able, in spite of another twohundred 3-ears of the supposed enervating influences of theAndalucian cUmate, to offer so prolonged, so obstinate, andso nearly successful a resistance to their conquerors. 1 Conde, i. 364 ; cf. Ibn Hayyan in Makkari, ii. 439.« Makkari, ii. 135, 462.
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W-^^ CHAPTEK VII THE INFLUENCE OF THE COPTS IN SPAIN We have said that the amalgamation of the Eoman-Gothicand Yemenite traditions of culture and civilisation helpedto place Seville in advance of Cordova previous to the acces-sion of Abderrahman III. But there was a third influenceat work here, the existence of which seems to have beenoverlooked even by students fully aware of the importanceof the race in question in another country under the rule ofIslam. This was the Egyptian, otherwise the Coptic in-fluence, which reflection on the relations of Islam with Egyptwill show to have been inevitably at work in Andalucia, inthe districts where the Arabs of Yemen predominated. Gibbons statement that in the conquest of Egypt byAmru, lieutenant of the Khahf Omar, the Copts received theMoslems more as deliverers than as enemies, is controvertedby Dr. Butler, who shows that their supposed chief, Al-Mukaukas, was the Patriarch Cyrus, Viceroy of Egypt, andthat he practically betrayed the Egyptia

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