La creciente difusión de un fraude historiográfico: la negación de la conquista musulmana de la península ibérica
Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: Denial of the conquest of Iberia by Muslims in 711 represents a historiographical fraud originally postulated by amateur Spanish historian Ignacio Olagüe, especially following the publication in 1974 of his book La revolución islámica en Occidente. In spite of its fraudulent nature, in 2006 Spanish Arabist González Ferrín endorsed Olagüe’s approach, thus legitimizing this fraud for the first time within academia and fostering its diffusion and the practices associated with it, in particular a marked anti-academicism. The present article offers a critical review of the recent evolution of this phenomenon, particularly regarding the case of the Spanish historian V. Martínez Enamorado who, though apparently rejecting the fraud, makes a decisive contribution to its consolidation
Author: Alejandro García Sanjuán
Institution: Universidad de Huelva
Language: Spanish
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2808282187