The Literature of Al-Andalus

The Literature of Al-Andalus explores the culture of Iberia adopting an interdisciplinary and comparative approach.

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

9780521471596, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 31 August 2000

520 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm, 0.93 kg

'This volume introduces a new concept of literary history, a regional rather than a linguistic one: it deals not only with the Arabic literature of al-Andalus, but also with the Hebrew, Latin and Romance literatures of al-Andalus.' Bibliotheca Orientalis

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.

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Notes on transliteration
1. Visions of al-Andalus Mariá Rosa Menocal
Madinat al-Zahrã' and the Umayyad palace D. F. Ruggles
Part I. The Shapes of Culture: 2. Language Consuelo López-Morillas
3. Music Dwight Reynolds
4. Spaces Jerrilynn D. Dodds
5. Knowledge Peter Heath
6. Love Michael Sells
The Great Mosque of Córdoba D. F. Ruggles
Part II. The Shapes of Literature: 7. The muwashshah Tova Rosen
8. The maqama Rina Drory
9. The qasida Beatrice Gruendler
The Aljafería in Saragossa and Taifa spaces Cynthia Robinson
Part III. Andalusians: 10. Ibn Hazm Eric Ormsby
11. Moses Ibn Ezra Raymond P. Scheindlin
12. Judah Halevi Ross Brann
13. Petrus Alfonsi Lourdes María Alvárez
14. Ibn Quzmãn Amila Buturovic
15. Ibn Zaydun Devin J. Stewart
16. Ibn Tufayl Lenn Goodman
17. Ibn 'Arabi Alexander Knysh
18. Ramon Llull Gregory B. Stone
19. Ibn al-Khatib Alexander Knysh
The dual heritage in Sicilian monuments D. F. Ruggles
Part IV. To Sicily: 20. Poetries of the Norman courts Karla Mallette
21. Ibn Hamdis and the poetry of nostalgia William Granara
22. Michael Scot and the translators Thomas E. Burman
Mudejar Teruel and Spanish identity D. F. Ruggles
Part V. Marriages and Exiles: 23. The Mozarabs H. D. Miller and Hanna E. Kassis
24. The Arabized Jews Ross Brann
25. The Sephardim Samuel G. Armistead
26. The Moriscos Luce López-Baralt
Part VI. To al-Andalus, Would She Return the Greeting: The Nuniyya (poem in N) of Ibn Zaydun
Index.

Subject Areas: Literature: history & criticism [DS]