Mágreb al-Aqṣà y al -ándalus: una historia compartida de clima, hambrunas y epidemias

The links between the Maghreb al-Aqṣà and al-Andalus have been a constant throughout the centuries. And if they are approached from the perspective of paleoclimatology there is no exception. The main objective of this study is to reconstruct the climatic anomalies—particularly droughts and storms—identified in the writings of the chroniclers Ibn Abī Zarʿ and Ibn ʿIdhārī during the period known as the Medieval Climatic Anomaly, dated approximately from 10th to 14th centuries. The direct consequences of a year of crop failure or storms that wreck crop fields, due to climatic fluctuations, are fundamentally twofold periods of famine and the spread of epidemics. Thus, these consequences are also evident in the aforementioned Arabic texts and in the archaeological remains of both places.