Eduardo Manzano Moreno is Research Professor at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Madrid and British Academy Global Professor at the University of St. Andrews. Between 2007 and 2012 he was Director of the Centre for Social and Human Sciences of the CSIC He has been visiting professor at the universities of Oxford (St. John's College), Chicago (Tinker Professor) and the School of Oriental and African Studies. His research has focused on the history of al-Andalus and on the political implications of historical memory. He has directed numerous research projects focusing on both subjects, on which he has also published a large number of articles and book chapters in English, French and German publications. Previous works include Conquistadores, emires y califas. Los omeyas y la formación de al-Andalus (Editorial Crítica) and Épocas Medievales (Editorial Crítica).

Eduardo Manzano Moreno has written a gripping account of the court of one of the two most powerful rulers in tenth-century Europe – together with the Byzantine emperor – based on a detailed contemporary history. If you want to know how medieval government worked, this is a book you have to read. It’s all there, from financing war to the culture of urban processions. Manzano Moreno is a master of his field.

• List of Illustrations Foreword to the English Edition Introduction  1 The Caliphate and the Natural and Human Cycles  2 The Caliphate’s Resources and Wealth  3 The Caliph and the Sulṭān  4 The Armies of the Caliph  5 The Struggle against the Fāṭimid Caliphate: (I) The Background  6 The Struggle against the Fāṭimid Caliphate: (II) The Conflict  7 Defending the Muslims  8 The Authority of the Caliph  9 The Representation of Power 10 Córdoba and Madīnat al-Zahrā’: Topography of Power and Urban SpaceSources and Bibliography Index

Eduardo Manzano Moreno is Research Professor at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Madrid and British Academy Global Professor at the University of St. Andrews. Between 2007 and 2012 he was Director of the Centre for Social and Human Sciences of the CSIC He has been visiting professor at the universities of Oxford (St. John's College), Chicago (Tinker Professor) and the School of Oriental and African Studies. His research has focused on the history of al-Andalus and on the political implications of historical memory. He has directed numerous research projects focusing on both subjects, on which he has also published a large number of articles and book chapters in English, French and German publications. Previous works include Conquistadores, emires y califas. Los omeyas y la formación de al-Andalus (Editorial Crítica) and Épocas Medievales (Editorial Crítica).

Eduardo Manzano Moreno has written a gripping account of the court of one of the two most powerful rulers in tenth-century Europe – together with the Byzantine emperor – based on a detailed contemporary history. If you want to know how medieval government worked, this is a book you have to read. It’s all there, from financing war to the culture of urban processions. Manzano Moreno is a master of his field.

• List of Illustrations Foreword to the English Edition Introduction  1 The Caliphate and the Natural and Human Cycles  2 The Caliphate’s Resources and Wealth  3 The Caliph and the Sulṭān  4 The Armies of the Caliph  5 The Struggle against the Fāṭimid Caliphate: (I) The Background  6 The Struggle against the Fāṭimid Caliphate: (II) The Conflict  7 Defending the Muslims  8 The Authority of the Caliph  9 The Representation of Power 10 Córdoba and Madīnat al-Zahrā’: Topography of Power and Urban SpaceSources and Bibliography Index

Eduardo Manzano Moreno is Research Professor at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Madrid and British Academy Global Professor at the University of St. Andrews. Between 2007 and 2012 he was Director of the Centre for Social and Human Sciences of the CSIC He has been visiting professor at the universities of Oxford (St. John's College), Chicago (Tinker Professor) and the School of Oriental and African Studies. His research has focused on the history of al-Andalus and on the political implications of historical memory. He has directed numerous research projects focusing on both subjects, on which he has also published a large number of articles and book chapters in English, French and German publications. Previous works include Conquistadores, emires y califas. Los omeyas y la formación de al-Andalus (Editorial Crítica) and Épocas Medievales (Editorial Crítica).

Eduardo Manzano Moreno has written a gripping account of the court of one of the two most powerful rulers in tenth-century Europe – together with the Byzantine emperor – based on a detailed contemporary history. If you want to know how medieval government worked, this is a book you have to read. It’s all there, from financing war to the culture of urban processions. Manzano Moreno is a master of his field.

• List of Illustrations Foreword to the English Edition Introduction  1 The Caliphate and the Natural and Human Cycles  2 The Caliphate’s Resources and Wealth  3 The Caliph and the Sulṭān  4 The Armies of the Caliph  5 The Struggle against the Fāṭimid Caliphate: (I) The Background  6 The Struggle against the Fāṭimid Caliphate: (II) The Conflict  7 Defending the Muslims  8 The Authority of the Caliph  9 The Representation of Power 10 Córdoba and Madīnat al-Zahrā’: Topography of Power and Urban SpaceSources and Bibliography Index