Iberian Moorings : : Al-Andalus, Sefarad, and the Tropes of Exceptionalism / / Ross Brann.
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 con...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Andalusi and Sefardi Exceptionalism as Tropes of Islamic and Jewish Culture
- Chapter 1. Geography and Destiny: The Genesis of Andalusi Exceptionalism in the Umayyad Caliphal Age
- Chapter 2. Without al- Andalus, There Would Be No Sefarad: The Origins of Sefardi Exceptionalism
- Chapter 3. The Cultural Turn: Andalusi Exceptionalism Through Arabic Adab, Following the Collapse of the Unitary State
- Chapter 4. The Jerusalemite Exile That Is in Sefarad: Sefardi Exceptionalism (Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries)
- Chapter 5. Out of Place with Exceptionalism on the Mind: Sefardi and Andalusi Travelers Abroad (Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries)
- Conclusion. Andalusi, Sefardi, and Spanish Exceptionalism: Reclaimed, Embraced, Repudiated, Re imagined
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index