ABSTRACTArabic sources recall the tenth and early eleventh centuries as the time when Andalusian armies achieved their greatest military triumphs over the Christian kingdoms and counties of northern Iberia. Some of those victories were truly spectacular and their like would never happen again. However, this view is also the result of the concealment, justification, and minimisation of defeats, as well as of the exaggeration of the successes achieved. This follows from a critical reading of Muslim chronicles and from the study of the data provided by Latin sources. The present article discusses some of the aforementioned practices of chroniclers and analyses whether the image offered by Arab compilers overstated the true military potential of the Umayyad Andalusian Caliphate. It concludes that caliphal armies were already showing some alarming signs of weakness during this period.

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科尔多瓦的倭马亚哈里发国是否像阿拉伯编年史者声称的那样强大？

摘要阿拉伯语来源回忆起 10 世纪和 11 世纪早期，当时安达卢西亚军队在伊比利亚北部的基督教王国和县上取得了最大的军事胜利。其中一些胜利真的很壮观，类似的事情再也不会发生了。然而，这种观点也是对失败的隐瞒、辩解和最小化，以及对已取得的成功进行夸大的结果。这是根据对穆斯林编年史的批判性阅读和对拉丁语来源提供的数据的研究得出的。本文讨论了上述编年史家的一些做法，并分析了阿拉伯编纂者提供的形象是否夸大了倭马亚安达卢西亚哈里发国的真正军事潜力。