The Literature of Al-Andalus

by Edited by María Rosa Menocal , Raymond P. Scheindlin , Michael Sells

• ISBN13: 9780521030236
• ISBN10: 0521030234
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-02
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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 chapters compiled by a team of the world's leading experts of Islamic Iberia, Sicily and related cultures, this is a truly interdisciplinary and comparative work which offers a interesting approach to the field.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations

Notes on transliteration

Visions of al-Andalus

Madinat al-Zahrp' and the Umayyad palace

The Shapes of Culture

Language Consuelo L=pez-Morillas

Music Dwight Reynolds

Spaces

Knowledge

Love

The Great Mosque of C=rdoba

The Shapes of Literature

The muwashshah

The maqama

The qasida Beatrice

The Aljafer8a in Saragossa and Taifa spaces

Andalusians

Ibn Hazm Eric Ormsby

Moses Ibn Ezra

Judah Halevi

Petrus Alfonsi Lourdes Mar8a Alvarez

Ibn Quzmpn

Ibn Zaydun

Ibn Tufayl

Ibn 'Arabi

Ramon Llull

Ibn al-Khatib

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

Mudejar Teruel and Spanish identity

Marriages and Exiles

The Mozarabs

The Arabized Jews

The Sephardim

The Moriscos Luce L=pez-Baralt

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

Index

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