Al-Andalus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Al-Andalus write by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). This book was released on 1992. Al-Andalus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From 711 when they arrived on the Iberian Peninsula until 1492 when scholars contribute a wide-ranging series of essays and catalogue entries which are fully companion to the 373 illustrations (324 in color) of the spectacular art and architecture of the nearly vanished culture. 91/2x121/2 they were expelled by Ferdinand and Isabella, the Muslims were a powerful force in al-Andalus, as they called the Iberian lands they controlled. This awe-inspiring volume, which accompanies a major exhibition presented at the Alhambra in Granada and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is devoted to the little-known artistic legacy of Islamic Spain, revealing the value of these arts as part of an autonomous culture and also as a presence with deep significance for both Europe and the Islamic world. Twenty-four international Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Muslim Spain and Portugal
Muslim Spain and Portugal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Muslim Spain and Portugal write by Hugh Kennedy. This book was released on 2014-06-11. Muslim Spain and Portugal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first study in English of the political history of Muslim Spain and Portugal, based on Arab sources. It provides comprehensive coverage of events across the whole of the region from 711 to the fall of Granada in 1492. Up till now the history of this region has been badly neglected in comparison with studies of other states in medieval Europe. When considered at all, it has been largely written from Christian sources and seen in terms of the Christian Reconquest. Hugh Kennedy raises the profile of this important area, bringing the subject alive with vivid translations from Arab sources. This will be fascinating reading for historians of medieval Europe and for historians of the middle east drawing out the similarities and contrasts with other areas of the Muslim world.
The Literature of Al-Andalus
The Literature of Al-Andalus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Literature of Al-Andalus write by María Rosa Menocal. This book was released on 2006-11-02. The Literature of Al-Andalus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Literature of Al-Andalus is an exploration of the culture of Iberia, present-day Spain and Portugal, during the period when it was an Islamic, mostly Arabic-speaking territory, from the eighth to the thirteenth century, and in the centuries following the Christian conquest when Arabic continued to be widely used. The volume embraces many other related spheres of Arabic culture including philosophy, art, architecture and music. It also extends the subject to other literatures - especially Hebrew and Romance literatures - that burgeoned alongside Arabic and created the distinctive hybrid culture of medieval Iberia. Edited by an Arabist, an Hebraist and a Romance scholar, with individual chapters compiled by a team of the world's leading experts of Islamic Iberia, Sicily and related cultures, this is a truly interdisciplinary and comparative work which offers a interesting approach to the field.
Revisiting Al-Andalus
Revisiting Al-Andalus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Revisiting Al-Andalus write by Glaire D. Anderson. This book was released on 2007. Revisiting Al-Andalus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Revisiting al-Andalus brings together a range of new approaches to the material culture of Islamic Iberia, highlighting especially new directions in Anglo-American scholarship in this field since the influential exhibition in 1992, Al-Andalus: the Art of Islamic Spain.
The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus
The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus write by Dwight Reynolds. This book was released on 2020-12-31. The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus is a critical account of the history of Andalusian music in Iberia from the Islamic conquest of 711 to the final expulsion of the Moriscos (Spanish Muslims converted to Christianity) in the early 17th century. This volume presents the documentation that has come down to us, accompanied by critical and detailed analyses of the sources written in Arabic, Old Catalan, Castilian, Hebrew, and Latin. It is also informed by research the author has conducted on modern Andalusian musical traditions in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria. While the cultural achievements of medieval Muslim Spain have been the topic of a large number of scholarly and popular publications in recent decades, what may arguably be its most enduring contribution – music – has been almost entirely neglected. The overarching purpose of this work is to elucidate as clearly as possible the many different types of musical interactions that took place in medieval Iberia and the complexity of the various borrowings, adaptations, hybridizations, and appropriations involved.
