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Performing al-Andalus

Jonathan Holt Shannon
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Author : Jonathan Holt Shannon
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253017741

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Performing al-Andalus explores three musical cultures that claim a connection to the music of medieval Iberia, the Islamic kingdom of al-Andalus, known for its complex mix of Arab, North African, Christian, and Jewish influences. Jonathan Holt Shannon shows that the idea of a shared Andalusian heritage animates performers and aficionados in modern-day Syria, Morocco, and Spain, but with varying and sometimes contradictory meanings in different social and political contexts. As he traces the movements of musicians, songs, histories, and memories circulating around the Mediterranean, he argues that attention to such flows offers new insights into the complexities of culture and the nuances of selfhood.

Muslim Spain and Portugal

Hugh Kennedy
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Author : Hugh Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317870401

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This is the first study in English of the political history of Muslim Spain and Portugal, based on Arab sources. It provides comprehensive coverage of events across the whole of the region from 711 to the fall of Granada in 1492. Up till now the history of this region has been badly neglected in comparison with studies of other states in medieval Europe. When considered at all, it has been largely written from Christian sources and seen in terms of the Christian Reconquest. Hugh Kennedy raises the profile of this important area, bringing the subject alive with vivid translations from Arab sources. This will be fascinating reading for historians of medieval Europe and for historians of the middle east drawing out the similarities and contrasts with other areas of the Muslim world.

The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus

Dwight Reynolds
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Author : Dwight Reynolds
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000289527

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The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus is a critical account of the history of Andalusian music in Iberia from the Islamic conquest of 711 to the final expulsion of the Moriscos (Spanish Muslims converted to Christianity) in the early 17th century. This volume presents the documentation that has come down to us, accompanied by critical and detailed analyses of the sources written in Arabic, Old Catalan, Castilian, Hebrew, and Latin. It is also informed by research the author has conducted on modern Andalusian musical traditions in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria. While the cultural achievements of medieval Muslim Spain have been the topic of a large number of scholarly and popular publications in recent decades, what may arguably be its most enduring contribution – music – has been almost entirely neglected. The overarching purpose of this work is to elucidate as clearly as possible the many different types of musical interactions that took place in medieval Iberia and the complexity of the various borrowings, adaptations, hybridizations, and appropriations involved.

The Formation of al-Andalus, Part 1

Manuela Marin
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Author : Manuela Marin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351889612

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These two volumes present a conspectus of current research on the history and culture of early medieval Spain and Portugal, from the time of the Arab conquest in 711 up to the fall of the caliphate. They trace the impact of Islamisation on the pre-existing Roman and Visigothic political and social structures, the continuing interaction between Christian and Muslim, and describe the particular development and characteristics of Muslim Spain- al-Andalus. Together, they comprise 38 articles, of which 32 have been translated into English specially for this publication. The first volume focuses on political and social history, and looks in detail at settlement patterns and urbanisation; the second examines questions of language and covers the brilliant cultural and intellectual history of the period.

The Literature of Al-Andalus

María Rosa Menocal
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Author : María Rosa Menocal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521030236

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

Looking Back at al-Andalus

Alexander Elinson
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Author : Alexander Elinson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789047442721

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Through an examination of a variety of literary genres composed in Arabic and Hebrew, this book examines the literary definition of al-Andalus by taking into account the role of memory, language, and literary convention in analyses of texts composed following cultural and political challenges to Arab hegemony in the Iberian Peninsula.

Revisiting Al-Andalus

Glaire D. Anderson,Mariam Rosser-Owen
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Author : Glaire D. Anderson,Mariam Rosser-Owen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004162273

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Revisiting Al-Andalus by Glaire D. Anderson,Mariam Rosser-Owen Pdf

Revisiting al-Andalus brings together a range of new approaches to the material culture of Islamic Iberia, highlighting especially new directions in Anglo-American scholarship in this field since the influential exhibition in 1992, Al-Andalus: the Art of Islamic Spain.

The Afterlife of al-Andalus

Christina Civantos
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Author : Christina Civantos
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438466712

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The first study to undertake a wide-ranging comparison of invocations of al-Andalus across the the Arab and Hispanic worlds. Around the globe, concerns about interfaith relations have led to efforts to find earlier models in Muslim Iberia (al-Andalus). This book examines how Muslim Iberia operates as an icon or symbol of identity in twentieth and twenty-first century narrative, drama, television, and film from the Arab world, Spain, and Argentina. Christina Civantos demonstrates how cultural agents in the present ascribe importance to the past and how dominant accounts of this importance are contested. Civantos’s analysis reveals that, alongside established narratives that use al-Andalus to create exclusionary, imperial identities, there are alternate discourses about the legacy of al-Andalus that rewrite the traditional narratives. In the process, these discourses critique their imperial and gendered dimensions and pursue intercultural translation. Christina Civantos is Associate Professor of Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami and the author of Between Argentines and Arabs: Argentine Orientalism, Arab Immigrants, and the Writing of Identity, also published by SUNY Press.

The Ornament of the World

Maria Rosa Menocal
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Author : Maria Rosa Menocal
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316092791

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This classic bestseller — the inspiration for the PBS series — is an "illuminating and even inspiring" portrait of medieval Spain that explores the golden age when Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in an atmosphere of tolerance (Los Angeles Times). This enthralling history, widely hailed as a revelation of a "lost" golden age, brings to vivid life the rich and thriving culture of medieval Spain, where for more than seven centuries Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in an atmosphere of tolerance, and where literature, science, and the arts flourished. "It is no exaggeration to say that what we presumptuously call 'Western' culture is owed in large measure to the Andalusian enlightenment...This book partly restores a world we have lost." —Christopher Hitchens, The Nation

The Mystics of al-Andalus

Yousef Casewit
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Author : Yousef Casewit
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107184671

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The Mystics of al-Andalus by Yousef Casewit Pdf

A study of the writings of Ibn Barrajān, an influential pioneer of intellectual mysticism in the Muslim West.

Articulating the Ḥijāba: Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al-Andalus

Mariam Rosser-Owen
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Author : Mariam Rosser-Owen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004469204

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Articulating the Ḥijāba: Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al-Andalus by Mariam Rosser-Owen Pdf

In Articulating the Ḥijāba, Mariam Rosser-Owen analyses for the first time the artistic and cultural patronage of the ‘Amirid regents of the last Cordoban Umayyad caliph, Hisham II, a period rarely covered in the historiography of al-Andalus. Al-Mansur, the founder of this dynasty, is usually considered a usurper of caliphal authority, who pursued military victory at the expense of the transcendental achievements of the first two caliphs. But he also commissioned a vast extension to the Great Mosque of Cordoba, founded a palatine city, conducted skilled diplomatic relations, patronised a circle of court poets, and owned some of the most spectacular objects to survive from al-Andalus, in ivory and marble. This study presents the evidence for a reconsideration of this period.

Al-Andalus

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Patronato de la Alhambra (Granada, Spain)
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Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Patronato de la Alhambra (Granada, Spain)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780870996368

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Al-Andalus by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Patronato de la Alhambra (Granada, Spain) Pdf

From 711 when they arrived on the Iberian Peninsula until 1492 when scholars contribute a wide-ranging series of essays and catalogue entries which are fully companion to the 373 illustrations (324 in color) of the spectacular art and architecture of the nearly vanished culture. 91/2x121/2 they were expelled by Ferdinand and Isabella, the Muslims were a powerful force in al-Andalus, as they called the Iberian lands they controlled. This awe-inspiring volume, which accompanies a major exhibition presented at the Alhambra in Granada and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is devoted to the little-known artistic legacy of Islamic Spain, revealing the value of these arts as part of an autonomous culture and also as a presence with deep significance for both Europe and the Islamic world. Twenty-four international Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

‘Our Place in al-Andalus’

Gil Anidjar
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Author : Gil Anidjar
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0804741212

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This book offers a reading of Andalusi, Jewish, and Arabic texts that represent the 12th and 13th centuries as the end of el-Andalus (Islamic Spain).

From Al-Andalus to the Americas (13th-17th Centuries)

Anonim
From Al Andalus to the Americas 13th 17th Centuries Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004365773

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From Al-Andalus to the Americas (13th-17th Centuries) by Anonim Pdf

From Al-Andalus to the Americas (13th-17th Centuries). Destruction and Construcion of Societies offers a multi-perspective view of the filiation of colonial and settler colonial experiences, from the Medieval Iberian Peninsula to the early modern Americas.

From Al-Andalus to Khurasan

Petra Sijpesteijn
From Al Andalus to Khurasan Book PDF

Author : Petra Sijpesteijn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004155671

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From Al-Andalus to Khurasan by Petra Sijpesteijn Pdf

The study of medieval Islamic history has been hindered by the lack of available evidence. This is because of its inaccessibility to all but the most specialised scholars in the field. Containing papers given at the "Documents and the History of the Early Islamic Mediterranean World" conference, this title looks at the redressing of this problem