Al-Andalus in motion : travelling concepts and cross-cultural contexts /: travelling concepts and cross-cultural contexts. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Julian Weiss, Rachel Scott, AbdoolKarim Vakil.
• Editors: Weiss, Julian; Scott, Rachel (Rachel Jennifer); Vakil, AbdoolKarim
• Contents: I: Departure Points; Introduction: Concepts, Origins, Aims - Rachel Scott ; 1. Al-Andalus in Motion: Paths and Perspectives - AbdoolKarim Vakil ; ; II: Translating Al-Andalus: Travelling across Languages; 2. Translating Tales of True Friendship out of Al-Andalus: The Medieval Castilian and Hebrew Translations of Kalila wa-Dimna - Rachel Scott ; 3. The Return of an Andalusi Moment: Sephardi Alternatives to the Monolingual Imagination, Pre and Post Partitioned Palestine - Yuval Evri ; ; III:(Re)Visions of Al-Andalus in Diaspora and Exile; 4. The Return to Al-Andalus in Blanco White's 'The Alcázar of Seville' - Daniel Muñoz Sempere ; 5. Bystanders and Borderlands: The Andalusi Frontier and the Sephardic Ballad - Julian Weiss ; ; IV: Andalusi Space as Node and Utopia: Europe, Islam, Empire; 6. Andalusi Space and the European Network in the German Rolandslied - Doriane Zerka ; 7. Andalusi Utopia and Muslim Modernity in Late Nineteenth-Century Russia: Ismail Gasprinskii's Epistolary Novel Dar al-Rahat - Igor Alexeev, Ksenia Kulikova, Sofia Lahuti ; ; V: Al-Andalus and the Politics of Religious Identity; 8. Al-Andalus on the Mind: The Jewish Golden Age and the Spanish Inquisition in Nineteenth-Century American-Jewish Historical Writing - Yitzchak Schwartz ; 9. Medievalist Passports: Contested Rights of Return for the Descendants of Medieval Iberian Jews and Muslims - Carlos Yebra López ; ; VI: Legacies, Landscapes and 'Travel Buildings'; 10. The 'Orient' Express: The Neo-Mudéjar Train Station in Toledo and the Spanish Debate on National Architectural Style - Olga Bush ; 11. The Forgotten 'Orient': Travel Writing in Portugal, c. 1930-1949 - Juliet Gryspeerdt ; ; Epilogue; Travelling with and through Al-Andalus - AbdoolKarim Vakil
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Plumbago Books
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 946.02; Muslims -- Spain -- History -- To 1500; Arabs -- Spain -- History -- To 1500; Spain -- History -- 711-1516; Spain -- Civilization -- 711-1516
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800102231
• Related ISBNs: 9781897747384
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