The legacy of Muslim Spain / / edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi, chief consultant to the editor, Manuela Marín.

• Superior document: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 12
• TeilnehmendeR: Jayyusi, Salma Khadra,; Marín, Manuela, 1945-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, New York, New York : : E.J. Brill,, [1994]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 1994
• Edition: Second edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Handbuch der Orientalistik. Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; 12. Bd.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1155 pages)
• Notes: "First hardcover edition: 1992. Republished 1994 simultaneously in a hardcover and a two-volume paperback edition." The hardcover 1994 ed. has the formal ed. statement "Second edition."

The civilisation of medieval Muslim Spain is perhaps the most brilliant and prosperous of its age and has been essential to the direction which civilisation in medieval Europe took. This volume is the first ever in any language to deal in a really comprehensive manner with all major aspects of Islamic civilisation in medieval Spain.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Salma Khadra Jayyusi -- History: -- Mahmoud Makki, The Political History of al-Andalus (92/711-897/1492) -- James Dickie, Granada: A Case Study of Arab Urbanism in Muslim Spain -- Robert Hillenbrand, 'The Ornament of the World: Medieval Córdoba as a Cultural Centre -- Rafael Valencia, Islamic Seville: Its Political, Social and Cultural History -- Mikel de Epalza, Mozarabs: An Emblematic Christian Minority in Islamic al-Andalus -- Margarita López Gómez, The Mozarabs: Worthy Bearers of Islamic Culture -- L.P. Harvey, The Mudejars -- Raymond P. Scheindlin, The Jews in Muslim Spain -- L.P. Harvey, The Political, Social and Cultural History of the Moriscos -- Madeleine Fletcher, Al-Andalus and North Africa in the Almohad Ideology -- Aziz Al-Azmeh, Mortal Enemies, Invisible Neighbours: Northerners in Andalusī Eyes -- Abbas Hamdani, An Islamic Background to the Voyages of Discovery -- Language and Literature: -- Pierre Cachia, Andalusī Belles Lettres -- Salma Khadra Jayyusi, Andalusī Poetry: The Golden Period -- Salma Khadra Jayyusi, Nature Poetry in al-Andalus and the Rise of Ibn Kh afāja -- James T. Monroe, Zajal and Muwa shsh aḥa : Hispano-Arabic Poetry and the Romance Tradition -- Lois A. Giffen, Ibn ḥazm and the ṭawq al-ḥamāma -- F. Corriente, Linguistic Interference Between Arabic and the Romance Languages of the Iberian Peninsula -- Dieter Messner, Further Listings and Categorisations of Arabic Words in Ibero-Romance Languages -- Roger Boase, Arab Influences on European Love-Poetry -- María Rosa Menocal, Al-Andalus and 1492: The Ways of Remembering -- Luce López-Baralt, The Legacy of Islam in Spanish Literature -- Music: -- Owen Wright, Music in Muslim Spain -- Art and Architecture: -- Oleg Grabar, Two Paradoxes in the Islamic Art of the Spanish Peninsula -- Jerrillynn Dodds, The Mudejar Tradition in Architecture -- Jerrillynn Dodds, The Arts of al-Andalus -- James Dickie, Space and Volume in Nasrid Architecture -- J.C. Bürgel, Ecstasy and Control in Andalusī Art: Steps towards a New Approach -- A. Fernández-Puertas, Calligraphy in al-Andalus -- Social History and Lifestyle -- Pierre Guichard, The Social History of Muslim Spain -- María J. Viguera, Asluḥu li 'l-ma'ūlī : On the Social Status of Andalusī Women -- David Waines, The Culinary Culture of al-Andalus -- Economic History: -- Pedro Chalmeta, An Approximate Picture of the Economy of al-Andalus -- Olivia Remie Constable, Muslim Merchants in Andalusī International Trade -- Philosophy: -- Miguel Cruz Hernández, Islamic Thought in the Iberian Peninsula -- Jamal al-Din al-'Alawī, The Philosophy of Ibn Ru sh d -- J.C. Bürgel, Ibn ṭufayl and his ḥayy Ibn Yaqẓān: A Turning Point in Arabic Philosophical Writing -- Religious Studies: -- Dominique Urvoy, The 'Ulamā' of al-Andalus -- Manuela Marín, Muslim Religious Practices in al-Andalus (2nd/8th- 4th/10th Centuries) -- María Isabel Fierro, Heresy in al-Andalus -- Claude Addas, Andalusī Mysticism and the Rise of Ibn 'Arabī -- Science, Technology and Agriculture: -- J. Vernet, Natural and Technical Sciences in al-Andalus -- Julio Samsó, The Exact Sciences in al-Andalus -- Thomas F. Glick, Hydraulic Technology in al-Andalus -- Expiración García Sánchez, Agriculture in Muslim Spain -- Lucie Bolens, The Use of Plants for Dyeing and Clothing -- James Dickie, The Hispano-Arab Garden: Notes towards a Typology -- Charles Burnett, The Translating Activity in Medieval Spain -- Margarita López Gómez, Islamic Civilisation in al-Andalus: A Final Assessment.