Our Place In Al Andalus
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Our Place In Al Andalus
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Author : Gil Anidjar
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2002
Our Place In Al Andalus written by Gil Anidjar and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
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).
Our Place In Al Andalus
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Author : Gil Anidjar
language : en
Publisher: Cultural Memory in the Present
Release Date : 2002
Our Place In Al Andalus written by Gil Anidjar and has been published by Cultural Memory in the Present this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
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).
Our Place In Al Andalus
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Author : Gil David Anidjar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Our Place In Al Andalus written by Gil David Anidjar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Jewish literature categories.
Maimonides In His World
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Author : Sarah Stroumsa
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2009-08-31
Maimonides In His World written by Sarah Stroumsa and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-31 with Philosophy categories.
While the great medieval philosopher, theologian, and physician Maimonides is acknowledged as a leading Jewish thinker, his intellectual contacts with his surrounding world are often described as related primarily to Islamic philosophy. Maimonides in His World challenges this view by revealing him to have wholeheartedly lived, breathed, and espoused the rich Mediterranean culture of his time. Sarah Stroumsa argues that Maimonides is most accurately viewed as a Mediterranean thinker who consistently interpreted his own Jewish tradition in contemporary multicultural terms. Maimonides spent his entire life in the Mediterranean region, and the religious and philosophical traditions that fed his thought were those of the wider world in which he lived. Stroumsa demonstrates that he was deeply influenced not only by Islamic philosophy but by Islamic culture as a whole, evidence of which she finds in his philosophy as well as his correspondence and legal and scientific writings. She begins with a concise biography of Maimonides, then carefully examines key aspects of his thought, including his approach to religion and the complex world of theology and religious ideas he encountered among Jews, Christians, Muslims, and even heretics; his views about science; the immense and unacknowledged impact of the Almohads on his thought; and his vision of human perfection. This insightful cultural biography restores Maimonides to his rightful place among medieval philosophers and affirms his central relevance to the study of medieval Islam.
Perspectives On Maimonides
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Author : Joel L. Kraemer
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 1991-01-01
Perspectives On Maimonides written by Joel L. Kraemer and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-01-01 with Religion categories.
'It will allow students to possess a volume that will acquaint them with high standards of scholarship, showing at the same time that although so much has been said and written about Maimonides, it is still possible to come up with new and interesting insights into his life and works, which continue to be interpreted very differently by different scholars.' - Gad Freudenthal, Journal of Religious History
Renewing The Past Reconfiguring Jewish Culture
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Author : Ross Brann
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2004-01-21
Renewing The Past Reconfiguring Jewish Culture written by Ross Brann and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-21 with History categories.
Looking to contexts ranging from premodern Spain and Italy to nineteenth-century Russia, Germany, and America, the contributors to this volume explore the ways the political and intellectual aspirations of successive historical presents have repeatedly reshaped the forms and narratives of Jewish cultural memory.
Looking Back At Al Andalus
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Author : Alexander E. Elinson
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2009
Looking Back At Al Andalus written by Alexander E. Elinson and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Looking Back at al-Andalus" focuses on Arabic and Hebrew Literature that expresses the loss of al-Andalus from multiple vantage points. In doing so, this book examines the definition of al-Andalusa (TM) literary borders, the reconstruction of which navigates between traditional generic formulations and actual political, military and cultural challenges. By looking at a variety of genres, the book shows that literature aiming to recall and define al-Andalus expresses a series of symbolic literary objects more than a geographic and political entity fixed in a single time and place. "Looking Back at al-Andalus" offers a unique examination into the role of memory, language, and subjectivity in presenting a series of interpretations of what al-Andalus represented to different writers at different historical-cultural moments.
Iberian Moorings
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Author : Ross Brann
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2021-05-28
Iberian Moorings written by Ross Brann and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-28 with History categories.
To Christians the Iberian Peninsula was Hispania, to Muslims al-Andalus, and to Jews Sefarad. As much as these were all names given to the same real place, the names also constituted ideas, and like all ideas, they have histories of their own. To some, al-Andalus and Sefarad were the subjects of conventional expressions of attachment to and pride in homeland of the universal sort displayed in other Islamic lands and Jewish communities; but other Muslim and Jewish political, literary, and religious actors variously developed the notion that al-Andalus or Sefarad, its inhabitants, and their culture were exceptional and destined to play a central role in the history of their peoples. In Iberian Moorings Ross Brann traces how al-Andalus and Sefarad were invested with special political, cultural, and historical significance across the Middle Ages. This is the first work to analyze the tropes of Andalusi and Sefardi exceptionalism in comparative perspective. Brann focuses on the social power of these tropes in Andalusi Islamic and Sefardi Jewish cultures from the tenth through the twelfth century and reflects on their enduring influence and its expressions in scholarship, literature, and film down to the present day.
Space And Place In Jewish Studies
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Author : Barbara E. Mann
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2012-02-10
Space And Place In Jewish Studies written by Barbara E. Mann and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-10 with Social Science categories.
Scholars in the humanities have become increasingly interested in questions of how space is produced and perceived—and they have found that this consideration of human geography greatly enriches our understanding of cultural history. This “spatial turn” equally has the potential to revolutionize Jewish Studies, complicating familiar notions of Jews as “people of the Book,” displaced persons with only a common religious tradition and history to unite them. Space and Place in Jewish Studies embraces these exciting critical developments by investigating what “space” has meant within Jewish culture and tradition—and how notions of “Jewish space,” diaspora, and home continue to resonate within contemporary discourse, bringing space to the foreground as a practical and analytical category. Barbara Mann takes us on a journey from medieval Levantine trade routes to the Eastern European shtetl to the streets of contemporary New York, introducing readers to the variety of ways in which Jews have historically formed communities and created a sense of place for themselves. Combining cutting-edge theory with rabbinics, anthropology, and literary analysis, Mann offers a fresh take on the Jewish experience.
Performing Al Andalus
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Author : Jonathan Holt Shannon
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2015-07-28
Performing Al Andalus written by Jonathan Holt Shannon and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-28 with Social Science categories.
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.