Pascual de Gayangos : : A Nineteenth-Century Spanish Arabist / / Cristina Alvarez Millan, Claudia Heide.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Millan, Cristina Alvarez,; Heide, Claudia,
• MitwirkendeR: Gardiner, C. Harvey,; Ginger, Andrew,; Glick, Thomas F.,; Heide, Claudia,; Hitchcock, Richard,; Marín, Manuela,; Millán, Cristina Álvarez,; Ramos, Miguel Ángel Álvarez,; Trusted, Marjorie,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 5 B/W illustrations

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748635474');Pascual de Gayangos (1809-97) celebrated Spanish Orientalist and polymath, is recognised as the father of the modern school of Arabic studies in Spain. He gave Islamic Spain its own voice, for the first time representing Spain's 'other' from 'within' not from without. This collection, the first major study of Gayangos, celebrates the 200th anniversary of his birth.Covering a wide range of subjects, it reflects the multiple fields in which Gayangos was involved: scholarship on the culture of Islamic and Christian Spain; history, literature, art; conservation and preservation of national heritage; formation of archives and collections; education; tourism; diplomacy and politics. Amalgamating and understanding Gayangos's multiple identities, it reinstates his importance for cultural life in nineteenth-century Spain, Britain and North America.It is also argued that Gayangos's scholarly achievements and his influence have a political dimension. His work must be seen in relation to the quest for a national identity which marked the nineteenth century: what was the significance of Spain's Islamic past, and the Imperial Golden Age to the culture of modern Spain? The chapters, informed by post-colonial theory, reception theory and theories of national identity, uncover some of the complexities of the process that shaped Spain's national identity.In the course of this book, Gayangos is shown to be a figure with many facets and several intellectual lives: Arabist, historian, liberal, researcher, editor, numismatist, traveller, translator, diplomat, perhaps a spy, a generous collaborator and one of Spain's greatest bibliophiles."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Illustrations -- Section I INTRODUCTION -- 1 The Life of Pascual de Gayangos 1809–1897 -- 2 Gayangos and the World of Politics -- Section II ARABISM -- 3 The Estranged Self of Spain: Oriental Obsessions in the Time of Gayangos -- 4 Scholarship and Criticism: The Letters of Reinhart Dozy to Pascual de Gayangos (1841–1852) -- Section III GAYANGOS IN THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD -- 5 Gayangos in the English Context -- 6 Gayangos: Prescott’s Most Indispensable Aide -- 7 Más ven cuatro ojos que dos: Gayangos and Anglo-American Hispanism -- 8 Gayangos and the Boston Brahmins -- Section IV GAYANGOS AND MATERIAL CULTURE -- 9 Pascual de Gayangos: A Scholarly Traveller -- 10 Gayangos’s Legacy: His Son-in-Law Juan Facundo Riaño (1829–1901) and the Victoria and Albert Museum -- Bibliography -- Index