Colonial Al Andalus

Author : Eric Calderwood
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674985797

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Colonial al-Andalus by Eric Calderwood Pdf

Through state-backed Catholicism, monolingualism, militarism, and dictatorship, Spain’s fascists earned their reputation for intolerance. It may therefore come as a surprise that 80,000 Moroccans fought at General Franco’s side in the 1930s. What brought these strange bedfellows together, Eric Calderwood argues, was a highly effective propaganda weapon: the legacy of medieval Muslim Iberia, known as al-Andalus. This legacy served to justify Spain’s colonization of Morocco and also to define the Moroccan national culture that supplanted colonial rule. Writers of many political stripes have celebrated convivencia, the fabled “coexistence” of Christians, Muslims, and Jews in medieval Iberia. According to this widely-held view, modern Spain and Morocco are joined through their shared Andalusi past. Colonial al-Andalus traces this supposedly timeless narrative to the mid-1800s, when Spanish politicians and intellectuals first used it to press for Morocco’s colonization. Franco later harnessed convivencia to the benefit of Spain’s colonial program in Morocco. This shift precipitated an eloquent historical irony. As Moroccans embraced the Spanish insistence on Morocco’s Andalusi heritage, a Spanish idea about Morocco gradually became a Moroccan idea about Morocco. Drawing on a rich archive of Spanish, Arabic, French, and Catalan sources—including literature, historiography, journalism, political speeches, schoolbooks, tourist brochures, and visual arts—Calderwood reconstructs the varied political career of convivencia and al-Andalus, showing how shared pasts become raw material for divergent contemporary ideologies, including Spanish fascism and Moroccan nationalism. Colonial al-Andalus exposes the limits of simplistic oppositions between European and Arab, Christian and Muslim, that shape current debates about European colonialism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 44,6 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.

Author : Sahar Bazzaz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674035399

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Forgotten Saints by Sahar Bazzaz Pdf

In 1894 a Muslim mystic named Muḥammad al-Kattānī abandoned his life of asceticism to preach Islamic revival and jihad against the French. Ten years later, he mobilized a Moroccan resistance against French colonization. This book narrates the story of al-Kattānī and his virtual disappearance from accounts of modern Moroccan history.

Author : Owen White
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674248441

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The Blood of the Colony by Owen White Pdf

The surprising story of the wine industry’s role in the rise of French Algeria and the fall of empire. “We owe to wine a blessing far more precious than gold: the peopling of Algeria with Frenchmen,” stated agriculturist Pierre Berthault in the early 1930s. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, Europeans had displaced Algerians from the colony’s best agricultural land and planted grapevines. Soon enough, wine was the primary export of a region whose mostly Muslim inhabitants didn’t drink alcohol. Settlers made fortunes while drawing large numbers of Algerians into salaried work for the first time. But the success of Algerian wine resulted in friction with French producers, challenging the traditional view that imperial possessions should complement, not compete with, the metropole. By the middle of the twentieth century, amid the fight for independence, Algerians had come to see the rows of vines as an especially hated symbol of French domination. After the war, Algerians had to decide how far they would go to undo the transformations the colonists had wrought—including the world’s fourth-biggest wine industry. Owen White examines Algeria’s experiment with nationalized wine production in worker-run vineyards, the pressures that resulted in the failure of that experiment, and the eventual uprooting of most of the country’s vines. With a special focus on individual experiences of empire, from the wealthiest Europeans to the poorest laborers in the fields, The Blood of the Colony shows the central role of wine in the economic life of French Algeria and in its settler culture. White makes clear that the industry left a long-term mark on the development of the nation.

Author : Dario Fernandez-Morera
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684516292

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The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise by Dario Fernandez-Morera Pdf

A finalist for World Magazine's Book of the Year! Scholars, journalists, and even politicians uphold Muslim-ruled medieval Spain—"al-Andalus"—as a multicultural paradise, a place where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived in harmony. There is only one problem with this widely accepted account: it is a myth. In this groundbreaking book, Northwestern University scholar Darío Fernández-Morera tells the full story of Islamic Spain. The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise shines light on hidden history by drawing on an abundance of primary sources that scholars have ignored, as well as archaeological evidence only recently unearthed. This supposed beacon of peaceful coexistence began, of course, with the Islamic Caliphate's conquest of Spain. Far from a land of religious tolerance, Islamic Spain was marked by religious and therefore cultural repression in all areas of life and the marginalization of Christians and other groups—all this in the service of social control by autocratic rulers and a class of religious authorities. The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise provides a desperately needed reassessment of medieval Spain. As professors, politicians, and pundits continue to celebrate Islamic Spain for its "multiculturalism" and "diversity," Fernández-Morera sets the historical record straight—showing that a politically useful myth is a myth nonetheless.

Author : Susan Martin-Márquez
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300152524

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Disorientations by Susan Martin-Márquez Pdf

Exploring the fraught processes of Spaniards' efforts to formulate a national identity - from the Enlightenment to the present - this book focuses on the nation's Islamic-African legacy, disputing the received wisdom that Spain has consistently rejected its historical relationship to Muslims and Africans.

Author : Christina Civantos
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438466712

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The Afterlife of al-Andalus by Christina Civantos Pdf

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.

Author : Hugh Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317870401

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Muslim Spain and Portugal by Hugh Kennedy Pdf

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.

Author : Jocelyn Hendrickson
Publisher : Harvard Series in Islamic Law
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0674248201

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Leaving Iberia by Jocelyn Hendrickson Pdf

Leaving Iberia examines Islamic legal responses to Muslims living under Christian rule in medieval and early modern Iberia and North Africa, links the juristic discourses on conquered Muslims on both sides of the Mediterranean, and adds a significant chapter to the story of Christian-Muslim relations in the medieval Mediterranean.

Author : Jonathan Holt Shannon
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253017741

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Performing al-Andalus by Jonathan Holt Shannon Pdf

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.

Author : Eric Calderwood
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674980365

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On Earth Or in Poems by Eric Calderwood Pdf

The idea of al-Andalus—medieval Muslim Iberia—has many uses, inspiring artists and activists who imagine a place and time of peaceful coexistence among Europeans, North Africans, and Middle Easterners; Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Eric Calderwood explores the consolidation of this reputation and its impact on artistic and political aspiration.

Author : Roger Owen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674065413

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The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life by Roger Owen Pdf

The monarchical presidential regimes that prevailed in the Arab world for so long looked as though they would last indefinitely, until events in Tunisia and Egypt made clear their time was up. This book exposes for the first time the origins and dynamics of a governmental system that largely defined the Arab Middle East in the 20th century.

Author : Aliyah Khan
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781978806641

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Far from Mecca by Aliyah Khan Pdf

Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean is the first academic work on Muslims in the English-speaking Caribbean. Khan focuses on the fiction, poetry and music of Islam in Guyana, Trinidad, and Jamaica, combining archival research, ethnography, and literary analysis to argue for a historical continuity of Afro- and Indo-Muslim presence and cultural production in the Caribbean: from Arabic-language autobiographical and religious texts written by enslaved Sufi West Africans in nineteenth century Jamaica, to early twentieth century fictions of post-indenture South Asian Muslim indigeneity and El Dorado, to the 1990 Jamaat al-Muslimeen attempted government coup in Trinidad and its calypso music, to judicial cases of contemporary interaction between Caribbean Muslims and global terrorism. Khan argues that the Caribbean Muslim subject, the "fullaman," a performative identity that relies on gendering and racializing Islam, troubles discourses of creolization that are fundamental to postcolonial nationalisms in the Caribbean.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Andalusia (Spain)
ISBN : 9299001243

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Cultural Symbiosis in Al-Andalus by Anonim Pdf

Author : Yousef Casewit
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 48,5 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.