Kingdoms of faith: a new history of Islamic Spain

Prelude: The beginning of Islam and the end of antiquity

Part I: Conquest, 700-820

An opening

Trouble in paradise

The falcon of the Quraysh

A new emirate

Part II: Transformation, 820-929

The emirate on the edge

The invention of al-Andalus

Saints and sinners

Kingdoms of faith

Part III: Triumph, 929-1030

A sun rising in the west

The resplendent city

All the Caliph's men

"An ornament bright"

The general, the caliph, his wife, and her lover

The chamberlain, victorious

The fall of the House of Umayya

Part IV: Disarray, 1030-1220

The remembrance of things past

The return of the king

A soldier of fortune in the kingdom of philosophy

A terrible, swift sword

Faith and power

An African caliphate

Golden ages

Part V: Romance, 1220-1482

The great game

Crescent under cross

The pearl in the necklace

Prosperous by God

Tales of the Alhambra

Part VI: Shards, 1482-1614

A last sigh

The virgin and the veil

On the road with Ricote

Epilogue: Al-Andalus unmoored.