|
Showing 1 - 4 of
4 matches in All Departments
Spanish Arabism was a touchstone of the major intellectual and
political issues facing Spain as it emerged from its imperial past
into its current form as a modern nation-state. James T. Monroe's
survey of four centuries of Spanish scholarship on the cultural
history of al-Andalus (Muslim Spain) establishes Spanish scholars
on the forefront of European scholars confronting the Orientalism
and colonialism at the heart of their national projects. This
reissue of James T. Monroe's classic study of Spanish Arabism
features a new foreword by Michelle M. Hamilton and David A. Wacks
that offers an overview of its impact and of how the investigation
of Spanish Arabism has blossomed since the publication of Monroe's
pathbreaking study.
The Study of al-Andalus is a collection of essays by students and
colleagues of James T. Monroe, Professor Emeritus of Comparative
Literature and Arabic at the University of California, Berkeley,
and the premier scholar of Andalusi (Hispano-Arabic) literature in
the United States. The introduction by the editors explains the
impact Monroe's scholarship has had on the fields of Arabic,
Spanish, and comparative literatures. The first essay in the
collection explains the impact of Monroe's watershed study Islam
and Arabs in Spanish Scholarship (1971). The ten essays that follow
explore the many ways in which Monroe's scholarship has inspired
further study in topics including Hispano-Arabic, Hebrew, and
Romance literatures; Persian epic poetry; the impact of Andalusi
literature in Egypt and the Arab East; and the lasting legacy of
the expulsion of Spain's last Muslims (the Moriscos) in the Early
Modern and Modern Arab world.
Reading crusader fiction against the backdrop of Mediterranean
history, this book explains how Iberian authors reimagined the idea
of crusade through the lens of Iberian geopolitics and social
history. The crusades transformed Mediterranean history and
inaugurated complex engagements between Western Europe, the
Balkans, North Africa, and the Middle East in ways that endure to
this day. Narratives of crusades powerfully shaped European
thinking about the East and continue to influence the
representation of interactions between Christian and Muslim states
in the region. The crusade, a French idea that gave rise to
Iberian, North African, and Levantine campaigns, was very much a
Mediterranean phenomenon. French and English authors wrote
itineraries in the Holy Land, chronicles of the crusades, and
fanciful accounts of Christian knights who championed the Latin
Church in the East. This study aims to explore the ways in which
Iberian authors imagined their role in the culture of crusade, both
as participants and interpreters of narrative traditions of the
crusading world from north of the Pyrenees.
The year 1492 has long divided the study of Sephardic culture into
two distinct periods, before and after the expulsion of Jews from
Spain. David A. Wacks examines the works of Sephardic writers from
the 13th to the 16th centuries and shows that this literature was
shaped by two interwoven experiences of diaspora: first from the
Biblical homeland Zion and later from the ancestral hostland,
Sefarad. Jewish in Spain and Spanish abroad, these writers
negotiated Jewish, Spanish, and diasporic idioms to produce a
uniquely Sephardic perspective. Wacks brings Diaspora Studies into
dialogue with medieval and early modern Sephardic literature for
the first time.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
Gloria
Sam Smith
CD
R407
Discovery Miles 4 070
|