713: The Treaty of Tudmir as a Testimony to the Muslim Subjection of the Iberian Peninsula

Abstract

Despite its late transmission in Arabic-Islamic sources of the fifth–eighth/eleventh–fourteenth centuries, the treaty of surrender known as the “Treaty of Tudmīr” is commonly regarded as a document which gives an impression of how the Muslim conquest and the subsequent establishment of Muslim rule on the Iberian Peninsula proceeded after 92/711. The commentary compares the different surviving versions, discusses the authenticity of the document, and places it in the broader context of how Islamic law became established and systematised on the Iberian Peninsula.