Literature of Al-Andalus

Name: Literature of Al-Andalus
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ISBN: 9780521471596

ISBN-10: 0521471591

ISBN-13: 9780521471596

Edition: 2000

Authors: Marï¿½a Rosa Menocal, Michael Sells, Raymond P. Scheindlin

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The Literature of Al-Andalus is an exploration of the culture of Iberia, present-day Spain and Portugal, during the period when it was an Islamic, mostly Arabic-speaking territory, from the eighth to the thirteenth century, and in the centuries following the Christian conquest when Arabic continued to be widely used. The volume embraces many other related spheres of Arabic culture including philosophy, art, architecture and music. It also extends the subject to other literatures - especially Hebrew and Romance literatures - that burgeoned alongside Arabic and created the distinctive hybrid culture of medieval Iberia. Edited by an Arabist, an Hebraist and a Romance scholar, with individual…

Book details

List price: $219.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/31/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 520
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English



List of illustrations


Notes on transliteration



Visions of al-Andalus Mariï¿½ Rosa Menocal Madinat al-Zahrï¿½' the Umayyad palace




The Shapes of Culture



Language Consuelo




Music Dwight Reynolds



Spaces




Knowledge




Love Michael Sells; The Great Mosque of




The Shapes of Literature



The muwashshah




The




The qasida Beatrice Gruendler




Andalusians



Ibn Hazm Eric Ormsby



Moses Ibn Ezra Raymond P. Scheindlin



Judah Halevi Ross Brann



Petrus Alfonsi Lourdes Marï¿½a Alvï¿½rez



Ibn Quzmï¿½n Amila Buturovic



Ibn Zaydun




Ibn Tufayl Lenn Goodman



Ibn 'Arabi Alexander Knysh



Ramon Llull Gregory B. Stone



Ibn al-Khatib Alexander Knysh; The dual heritage in Sicilian monuments




To Sicily



Poetries of the Norman courts




Ibn Hamdis and the poetry of nostalgia




Michael Scot and the translators Thomas E. Burman Mudejar Teruel and Spanish identity




Marriages and Exiles



The Mozarabs H. D. Miller




The Arabized Jews Ross Brann



The Sephardim Samuel G. Armistead



The Moriscos Luce Lï¿½pez-Baralt



To al-Andalus, Would She Return the Greeting: The Nuniyya (poem in N) of Ibn Zaydun


Index