CASTEJON Y MARTINEZ DE ARIZALA, Rafael.

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Madīnat Al-Zahrā', maqr al-khilāfah al-qurtubīah. First edition of this pamphlet, with only one other recorded copy (BNE), on the archaeological site of Medinat al-Zahra, formerly the seat of the first caliph of al-Andalus, in Cordoba. This booklet was intended as a summary for the attendees to the lecture of the historian and Arabist Rafael Castejón y Martínez de Arizala (1893-1986), delivered at the Spanish General Residency in Morocco, at Tetouan. Based on the author's excavations and fieldwork in Cordoba, published in 1945, the lecture discusses the magnificent 10th-century buildings, established by Abd al-Rahman III (912-961) of the Umayyad dynasty, their decoration, and the Arab craftsmen who worked on them. It then addresses the sudden destruction of the city in the year 1010, and the excavations made on the site since 1911, when it was first rediscovered.

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