The traditional birthplace of a famous Moroccan pasha rests on no positive evidence

Evidence

Cuevas de Almanzora: the bibliography of those who have taken this view will be found ably and honestly presented in a chapter entitled “The Pasha Jawdar’s Cuevas de Almanzora Years” in Ha¨ıdara (1993, 17–33). Ha¨ıdara gave this chapter the subtitle “Archeology of a Silence” to indicate that he was able to dig up no positive evidence connecting Jawdar to Cuevas (although he seems still to accept it as his subject’s birthplace). — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1599

Categorization

• DEFINE: Haïdara’s phrase ‘Archaeology of a Silence’ is a striking name for the method of documenting an absence of evidence.