Search Results - "Al-Andalus"

al-Andalus : the art of Islamic Spain /

Table of Contents: “…Dodds -- Madīnat al-Zahrā : the triumph of the Islamic state / Antonio Vallejo Triano -- Luxury arts of the Caliphal period / Renata Holod -- Arts of the Taifa kingdoms / Cynthia Robinson -- The fortifications of al-Andalus / Juan Zozaya -- The Almoravids and Almohads : an introduction / Manuel Casamar Pérez -- The architectural heritage of Islamic Spain in North Africa / Christian Ewert -- The ceramics of al-Andalus / Guillermo Rosselló-Bordoy -- Almoravid and Almohad textiles / Cristina Partearroyo -- The arts of the book / Sabiha Khemir -- The Alhambra : an introduction / Darío Cabanelas Rodríguez -- The palaces of the Alhambra / James Dickie (Yaqub Zaki) -- The city plan of the Alhambra / Jesús Bermúdez López. …”

Revisiting al-Andalus : perspectives on the material culture of islamic Iberia and beyond /

Table of Contents: “…Anderson -- Poems in stone : the iconography of amirid Poetry, and its "Petrification" on Amirid Marbles / Mariam Rosser-Owen -- Love in the ime of Fitna : 'Courtliness' and the "Pamplona" casket / Cynthia Robinson -- Evolution of the Andalusi urban landscape: from the dispersed to the saturated Medina / Julio Navarro and Pedro Jimenez -- Re-examining Almohad economies in South-western al-Andalus through petrological analysis of archaeological ceramics / Rebecca Bridgman -- The Andalusi house in Granada (thirteenth to sixteenth centuries) / Antonio Orihuela -- Understanding architectural change at the Alhambra : stratigraphicanalysis of the Western Gallery, Court of the Myrtles / Camilla Mileto and Fernando Vegas -- Sixteenth-century viceregal ceramics and the creation of a Mudejar myth in New Spain / Maria Judith Feliciano -- Owen Jones and the Alhambra court at the Crystal Palace / Kathryn Ferry -- Visions of al-Andalus in twentieth-century Spanish Mosque architecture / Jennifer Roberson.…”
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Performing al-Andalus : music and nostalgia across the Mediterranean / by Shannon, Jonathan Holt

Table of Contents: “…A Note on Transliteration -- Overture: Performance, Nostalgia, and the Rhetoric of al-Andalus: Mediterranean Soundings -- 1. In the Shadows of Ziryab: Narratives of al-Andalus and Andalusian Music -- 2. …”
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La mosquée des Andalous à Fès by Terrasse, Henri, 1895-1971

Subjects: “…Fès (Morocco). Jāmiʻ al-Andalus.…”

From al-Andalus to Khurasan : documents from the medieval Muslim world /

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- LIST OF PLATES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES ON REFERENCES, DATES AND EDITIONS -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION -- Eduardo Manzano Moreno -- AL-ANDALUS -- ROMANCED DOCUMENTS, BILINGUAL DOCUMENTS AND BOOKS OF HABICES -- Camilo 193;lvarez de Morales -- FROM MUSLIM TO CHRISTIAN HANDS: THE DOCUMENTS FROM THE MUNICIPAL ARCHIVE OF GRANADA -- Emilio Molina L243;pez and Mar237;a del Carmen Jim233;nez Mata -- WATER AND FARM ESTATES IN THE ARABIC DOCUMENTS OF THE NA350;RID KINGDOM OF GRANADA -- Francisco Vidal Castro -- NOTARIES AND THEIR FORMULAS: THE LEGACIES FROM THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OF GRANADA -- Amalia Zome241;o -- SICILY -- TRUSTING THE TEXT AS FAR AS WE CANTHROW THE SCRIBE:FURTHER NOTES ON READING A BILINGUAL JAR298;DAT AL-HUD362;D FROM THE ROYAL D298;W256;N OF NORMAN SICILY -- Alex Metcalfe -- EGYPT -- THE ECONOMICS OF STATE FORMATION IN EARLY ISLAMIC EGYPT -- Gladys Frantz-Murphy -- L8217;APPORT DE PAPYRUS POST201;RIEURS 192; LA CONQU202;TE ARABE POUR LA DATATION DES OSTRACA COPTES DE LA TOMBE TT29 -- Anne Boud8217;hors -- THE DOCUMENTARY BACKGROUND TO THE HISTORY OF THE PATRIARCHS OF PS.…”
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Looking back at al-Andalus : the poetics of loss and nostalgia in medieval Arabic and Hebrew literature / by Elinson, Alexander E.

Table of Contents: “…The poetics of loss and nostalgia in Muslim Spain -- Written in stone : the Andalusī rithāʼ al-mudun in the Arabic elegiac tradition -- Weeping over the poetic past : poetry into prose in al-Saraqusṭī's Qayrawan maqāma -- Al-Andalus and Sefarad in the Hebrew qaṣīda -- The view from al-Andalus : looking east, west, and south for Andalusī identity -- A final look back -- Appendix: Select Arabic and Hebrew texts.…”
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Defining boundaries in al-Andalus : Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Islamic Iberia / by Safran, Janina M.

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Mysticism and Philosophy in al-Andalus : Ibn Masarra, Ibn al-?Arabi and the Isma?ili Tradition. by Ebstein, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements ; Note on Transliteration, Translation and Dates ; Introduction ; Al-Andalus ; Ismā'īlīs, Fāṭimīs and Andalusīs ; From Ibn Masarra to Ibn al- Arabī ; Religion, Politics, Science: Developments and Setbacksin Modern Scholarship ; Terminology and Typology ; Some Notes on the Sources ; 1 The Word of God and the Divine Will ; The Hellenistic Heritage and the Quranic Background ; The Arabic Neoplatonic Tradition ; The Ismā'īlī Tradition ; Ismā'īlī Mythical Writings ; The Eastern Neoplatonists ; Ikhwān al-Ṣafā' ; The Andalusī Mystics ; Ibn Masarra ; Ibn al-'Arabī.…”
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Al-Andalus, Sepharad and medieval Iberia : cultural contact and diffusion / by Corfis, Ivy A.

Table of Contents: “…Special issue: Al-Andalus, Sepharad and medieval Iberia : cultural contact and diffusion -- pt. 1. …”
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Medieval Sicily, al-Andalus, and the Maghrib : writing in times of turmoil /

Table of Contents: “…"And God Dispersed Their Unity": Historiographical Patterns in Recounting the End of Muslim Rule in Sicily and al-​Andalus --…”
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The Wolf King : Ibn Mardanish and the Construction of Power in al-Andalus. by Balbale, Abigail Krasner

Table of Contents: “…Filiative Networks: Lineage and Legitimacy in Sharq al-Andalus -- 4. Material Genealogies and the Construction of Power -- 5. …”
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Iberian Jewish literature : between al-Andalus and Christian Europe / by Decter, Jonathan P., 1971-

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Musical exodus : Al-Andalus and its Jewish diasporas /

Table of Contents: “…Shannon -- Jewish musicians in the musique orientale of Oran, Algeria / by Tony Langlois -- Tafillalt's soulmate : a snapshot on the Israeli piyyut revival / by Carmel Raz -- Islands of musical memory : performing selihot according to the Codex Siftei Renanot in Al-Andalus, Djerba, Tripoli, and Israel from the eleventh to the twenty-first centuries / by Edwin Seroussi.…”
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La Reconquista, d'al-Andalus à l'Espagne catholique : Sept siècles de reconquêtes en péninsule Ibérique / by Parmentier, Romain

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Page de titre -- La Reconquista -- Contexte -- La fin du royaume wisigoth -- La conquête musulmane -- Al-Andalus ou l'Espagne des trois religions -- La survie des royaumes chrétiens du nord -- Biographies -- Alphonse VI de León, de Castille et de Galice -- Ferdinand III, roi de Castille et de León -- Isabelle Ire, reine de Castille -- La Reconquista -- Les prémices d'une reconquête -- La prise de Tolède et la revanche des Almoravides -- Le déclin d'al-Andalus et l'intervention des Almohades -- La guerre de Grenade -- Au sommet de l'Alhambra -- Répercussions -- La fin de la tolérance -- Vers le Nouveau Monde -- En résumé -- Pour aller plus loin -- Sources bibliographiques -- Sources complémentaires -- Documentaire -- Musées et monuments commémoratifs -- Copyright.…”
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From Al-Andalus to the Americas (13th-17th centuries) : destruction and construction of societies /

Table of Contents: “…Medieval military associations: from the Iberian cabalgada to the American entrada / Josep Torró -- Council and urban militias in the crown of Aragon during the 13th century: from conquering militias to monetary exemptions / Enric Guinot -- War and booty as incentives for emigration: Tortosa and al-Andalus (12th-13th centuries) -- Medieval factors in the conquest of America: organisation and war practices in the incursions into Darién / Carmen Mena García -- On the use of terror, cruelty and violence in the Spanish conquest of the Americas: some thoughts / Antonio Espino-López -- Feudal conquest and colonisation: an archaeological insight into the transformation of Andalusi irrigated spaces in the Balearic Islands / Helena Kirchner -- The agrarian model of Valencian Moriscos / Manuel Ardit Lucas -- Iberian colonisations and water distribution systems (15th-16th c.): a comparative approach / Félix Retamero and Virgilio Martínez-Enamorado -- Commercial crop or plantation system? …”
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Aesthetics in Arabic thought : from pre-Islamic Arabia through al-Andalus / by Puerta Vílchez, José Miguel

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 2 -- The Arts on the Margins of Knowledge: Ideas and Concepts of Art in Classical Arab Culture2.1 The Arts in the Arab-Islamic Encyclopedia; 2.1.1 The Arts in the Classification of Knowledge in the East; 2.1.2 The Arts in the Classification of Knowledge in al-Andalus and the Maghrib; a) The Arts in the Ẓahiri System of Knowledge; b) Ibn Bājja: the Practical Arts and Classifications of Intellectual Knowledge in the Founding of Andalusi Falsafa; c) Ibn Ṭufayl's Self-Taught Philosopher: Man in a State of Nature Neither Produces nor Conceives of the Arts…”
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Alvar Pérez de Castro (c. 1196-1239) : tenente de Andújar : frontero de al-Andalus : conquistador de Córdoba / by Chamocho Cantudo, Miguel Ángel, 1969-

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Jews and Muslims Made Visible in Christian Iberia and Beyond, 14th to 18th Centuries : Another Image. by Franco Llopis, Borja

Table of Contents: “…Hispania, Al-Andalus, and the Crown of Castile: Architecture and Constructions of Identity /…”
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Jews, food, and Spain : the oldest medieval Spanish cookbook and the Sephardic culinary heritage by Piñer, Hélène Jawhara

Table of Contents: “…Part Two: The Legacy of the Multicultural Cuisine of Al-Andalus (Fourteenth to Seventeenth Century): The Evolution and Perception of Jewish Food --…”
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A companion to global queenship

Table of Contents: “…Al-Dalfa' and the Political Role of the umm al-walad in the Late Umayyad Caliphate of al-Andalus, p.171 /…”
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