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Andalus
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Author : Edwyn Hole
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
Andalus written by Edwyn Hole and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with Andalusia (Spain) categories.
In this book, the product of five years' residence in Andalusia, the author opens up an exciting and colourful period in history that inexplicably has never attracted English historians or romantic novelists, although it offers material for a score of books. "Andalus" is the name under which the Arabs knew Spain, when the Muslim Empire extended from the Indus to the Pillars of Hercules. It was conquered with surprising ease in the eighth century, and remained in Muslim hands till the fifteenth. It attained its full flowering in the tenth century, when the all-powerful Caliph Abd al-Rahman reigned in Cordoba and his city-palace of al-Zahra out-rivalled the fabulous court of Harun al-Rashid in Baghdad. Andulus knew a degree of civilization in comparison with which the contemporary Christian kingdoms of Western Europe were still in the dark ages. After a brief historical outline, the author deals at length with the fascinating and full-blooded mixture of races that made up the population, with their government and diplomacy, their attitude towards women and slaves, their sports and pastimes, and their passion for poetry. He closes with a portrait-gallery of five outstanding and very dissimilar Andalusians, and thus rounds off a most knowledgeable and vivid account of a country and a people unique in Western Europe.
The Formation Of Al Andalus Part 1
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Author : Manuela Marin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05
The Formation Of Al Andalus Part 1 written by Manuela Marin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with History categories.
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.
Looking Back At Al Andalus
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Author : Alexander E. Elinson
language : ar
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.
The Literature Of Al Andalus
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Author : María Rosa Menocal
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-11-02
The Literature Of Al Andalus written by María Rosa Menocal and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Literature of Al-Andalus explores the culture of Iberia adopting an interdisciplinary and comparative approach.
Revisiting Al Andalus
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Author : Glaire D. Anderson
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2007
Revisiting Al Andalus written by Glaire D. Anderson and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Social Science categories.
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.
Andalus And Sefarad
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Author : Sarah Stroumsa
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-15
Andalus And Sefarad 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 2019-10-15 with History categories.
An integrative approach to Jewish and Muslim philosophy in al-Andalus Al-Andalus, the Iberian territory ruled by Islam from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries, was home to a flourishing philosophical culture among Muslims and the Jews who lived in their midst. Andalusians spoke proudly of the region's excellence, and indeed it engendered celebrated thinkers such as Maimonides and Averroes. Sarah Stroumsa offers an integrative new approach to Jewish and Muslim philosophy in al-Andalus, where the cultural commonality of the Islamicate world allowed scholars from diverse religious backgrounds to engage in the same philosophical pursuits. Stroumsa traces the development of philosophy in Muslim Iberia from its introduction to the region to the diverse forms it took over time, from Aristotelianism and Neoplatonism to rational theology and mystical philosophy. She sheds light on the way the politics of the day, including the struggles with the Christians to the north of the peninsula and the Fāṭimids in North Africa, influenced philosophy in al-Andalus yet affected its development among the two religious communities in different ways. While acknowledging the dissimilar social status of Muslims and members of the religious minorities, Andalus and Sefarad highlights the common ground that united philosophers, providing new perspective on the development of philosophy in Islamic Spain.
Al Andalus A Trail Of Discoveries
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Author : MICHAEL CHARLES MIFSUD
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2010-07-17
Al Andalus A Trail Of Discoveries written by MICHAEL CHARLES MIFSUD and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-17 with Travel categories.
The book is different, in all respects, to all that has been written about the charismatic people of southern Spain. It looks at regularly overlooked corners of the culture and brings to life much that puzzles the northern visitors. The ease with which it can be read and the various layers of understanding help to absorb a difficult subject that academics tend to condense into facts and figures. Each chapter can be read in any order and each is self-sufficient in its potrayal, like a cameo with its own frame. Chapter headings are in Spanish and relate to the essence of the chapter, prompting the reader, where necessary, to find out what it means. If it is to be categorized, this book is an alternative and hard look at a surprisingly complex and highly cultured people who have gone unnoticed for too long.
Colonial Al Andalus
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Author : Eric Calderwood
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2018-04-09
Colonial Al Andalus written by Eric Calderwood and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-09 with History categories.
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.
The Formation Of Al Andalus Part 2
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Author : Julio Samsó
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-10-23
The Formation Of Al Andalus Part 2 written by Julio Samsó and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-23 with History categories.
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.
Andalus
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Author : Jason Webster
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-08-03
Andalus written by Jason Webster and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-03 with Travel categories.
As Islam and the West prepare to clash once again, Jason Webster embarks on a quest to discover Spain's hidden Moorish legacy and lift the lid on a country once forged by both Muslims and Christians. He meets Zine, a young illegal immigrant from Morocco, a twenty-first century Moor, lured over with the promise of a job but exploited as a slave labourer on a fruit farm. Jason's life is threatened as he investigates the agricultural gulag, Zine rescues him, and the unlikely pair of writer and desperado take off on a rollercoaster ride through Andalucía. While Jason unveils the neglected Arab ancestry of modern Spain - apparent in its food, language, people and culture - Zine sets out on his own parallel quest, a one-man peace mission to resolve Muslim-Christian tensions by proving irresistible to Spanish señoritas.