The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature

The Literature of Al-Andalus

Contents

 List of illustrations

Note on transliteration

1. Visions of al-Andalus

by Maria Rosa Menocal, YaleUniversity

 

Madinat al-Zahra' and the Umayyad palace

by D. F. Ruggles, Cornell University

 

PART I THE SHAPES OF CULTURE

2. Languages

by Consuelo Lopez-Morillas, Indiana University

3. Music

by Dwight Reynolds, University of California at Santa Barbara

4. Spaces

by Jerrilyn D. Dodds, School of Architecture, City College, City University of New York

5. Knowledge

by Peter Heath, American University of Beirut

6. Love

by Michael Sells, Haverford College

 

The Great Mosque of Córdoba

by D. F. Ruggles, Cornell University

 

PART II THE SHAPES OF LITERATURE

 

7. The Muwashshah

by Tova Rosen, Tel Aviv University

8. The Maqama

by Rina Drory, Tel Aviv University

9. The Qasida

by Beatrice Gruendler, Yale University

 

The Aljaferia in Saragossa and Taifa spaces

by Cynthia Robinson, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

 

PART III ANDALUSIANS

10. Ibn Hazm

by Eric Ormsby, McGill University

11. Moses Ibn Ezra

by Raymond P. Scheindlin, Jewish Theological Seminary of America

12. Judah Halevi

by Ross Brann, Cornell University

13. Petrus Alfonsi

by Lourdes Maria Alvarez, Bard College

14. Ibn Quzman

by Amila Buturovic, York University

15. Ibn Zaydun

by Devin J. Stewart, Emory University

16. Ibn Tufayl

by Lenn Goodman, Vanderbilt University

17. Ibn 'Arabi

by Alexander Knysh, University of Michigan

18. Ramon Llull

by Gregory B. Stone, Louisiana State University

19. Ibn al-Khatib

by Alexander Knysh, University of Michigan

 

The dual heritage in Sicilian monuments

by D.F. Ruggles, Cornell University

 

PART IV TO SICILY

20. Poetries of the Norman courts

by Karla Mallette, Stanford University

21. Ibn Hamdis and the poetry of nostalgia

by William Granara, Harvard University

22. Michael Scot and the translators

by Thomas E. Burman, University of Tennessee

 

Mudejar Teruel and Spanish identity

by D. F. Ruggles, Cornell University

PART V MARRIAGES AND EXILES

 23. The Mozarabs

by H. D. Miller, Yale University, and Hanna E. Kassis, University of British Columbia

24. The Arabized Jews

by Ross Brann, Cornell University

25. The Sephardim

by Samuel G. Armistead, University of California at Davis

26. The Moriscos

by Luce Lopex-Baralt, University of Puerto Rico

PART VI TO AL-ANDALUS, WOULD SHE RETURN THE GREETING

The Nuniyya (poem in N) of Ibn Zaydun

translated by Michael A. Sells

 

Index