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ISLAMIC AND CHRISTIAN SPAIN
IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES

Thomas F. Glick

Table 4

Indicators of Structural Gain or Loss in al-Andalus

Decrystallization                                                 Crystallization

                                A. NINTH CENTURY

Christian martyrdoms                                                 Islamization
Detribalization                                                            Urbanization
Insufficiency of                                                           Introduction of
    garrison institutions                                                        Iraqi institutions
Economic depression                                                 Establishment of legal
Tribal Infighting                                                                 norms
                                                                                  Dandyism
                                                                                  Malikism
                                                                                  Study of Hadîth
 

                                B. ELEVENTH CENTURY

Decay of central state                                                States based on realistic
Dandyism                                                                    ethnic base
Insecurity caused by                                                  Economic regionalization
    Christian pressure                                                  Practice of science
Religious heterodoxy                                                  Recognition of Andalusi
                                                                                    literary tradition