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Iberian Moorings - Al-Andalus, Sefarad, and the Tropes of Exceptionalism (Hardcover)
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Iberian Moorings - Al-Andalus, Sefarad, and the Tropes of Exceptionalism (Hardcover)
Series: The Middle Ages Series
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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.
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