. It is a specialty in which students receive specialized training in various aspects of the political and cultural life of the countries of the Maghreb and Andalusia in the Middle Ages, which was characterized by the Islamic specificity of these regions, and witnessed a remarkable development of Islamic civilization, and the strength and sovereignty of Muslims in the Mediterranean basin in general, and in Morocco and the Iberian Peninsula in particular.
Through training in this specialty, students obtain expanded knowledge supported by specialized knowledge provided by professors specialized in the history of the Islamic West, and they ensure their training in depth and comprehensiveness, while providing the most important methods and tools that enable students to research with a clear and sober methodology in the field of history in general, and in the field of medieval history in particular.
The student continues studying in this specialization for a period of two years of training in four semesters, each of which includes basic, methodological, exploratory, and horizontal units, and within these units are distributed various standards in the specialization.