What is Granada?

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Granada was the last of the Andalusian kingdoms, the emirate of the Banu al-Ahmar from 1238 to 1492, and it holds the Alhambra, a jewel of Islamic architecture. Its fall closed eight Islamic centuries in Iberia. ¹

Disputing the count of raids and sariyas

The maghazi arithmetic disputes: Ibn Ishaq's twenty-six raids versus the twenty-seven that split Wadi'l-Qura from Khaybar; nine pitched battles common to both lists with al-Waqidi adding Wadi'l-Qura and al-Ghaba for eleven; and the sariya counts ranging from thirty-five to al-Waqidi's forty-eight (in al-Tabari's chain) to sixty-six.

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Disputing the count of raids and sariyas