Al-Andalus in Motion - Travelling Concepts and Cross-Cultural Contexts

At a time when the discourse of a clash of civilisations has been re-grounded anew in scaremongering and dog-whistle politics over a Hispanic challenge to America and a Muslim challenge to European societies, and in the context of the War on Terror and migration panics, evocations of al-Andalus - medieval Iberia under Islamic rule - have ...

List of 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

Product details

• Assisted by: Dr Rachel (Customer) Scott (Editor), Dr. Rachel (Customer) Scott (Editor), Rachel Scott (Editor), Abdoolkarim Vakil (Editor), Julian Weiss (Editor)
• Publisher: King's College London School of Humanities
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9781897747384
• ISBN: 978-1-897747-38-4
• No. of pages: 372
• Dimensions: 240 mm x 163 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 678 g
• Illustrations: 17 illus.
• Series: Kings College London Medieval; Kings College London Medieval Studies (KCLMS)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions