The Legacy of Muslim SpainSalma Khadra Jayyusi, Manuela Marín 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. |
Contents
The Political History of alAndalus 927118971492 | 3 |
The Cities | 9 |
A Case Study of Arab Urbanism in Muslim Spain | 88 |
Medieval Córdoba as a Cultural Centre | 112 |
Its Political Social and Cultural History | 136 |
An Emblematic Christian Minority in Islamic alAndalus | 149 |
Worthy Bearers of Islamic Culture | 171 |
The Jews in Muslim Spain | 188 |
The Arts of alAndalus | 599 |
Space and Volume in Nasrid Architecture | 621 |
Calligraphy in alAndalus | 639 |
The Social History of Muslim Spain | 679 |
On the Social Status of Andalusi Women | 709 |
The Culinary Culture of alAndalus | 725 |
An Approximate Picture of the Economy of alAndalus | 741 |
Muslim Merchants in Andalusi International Trade | 759 |
The Political Social and Cultural History of the Moriscos | 201 |
AlAndalus and North Africa in the Almohad Ideology | 235 |
Northerners in Andalusi Eyes | 259 |
An Islamic Background to the Voyages of Discovery | 273 |
Andalusi Belles Lettres | 307 |
The Golden Period | 317 |
Nature Poetry in alAndalus and the Rise of Ibn Khafāja | 367 |
HispanoArabic Poetry and the Romance Tra | 398 |
Ibn Hazm and the Tawq alHamāma | 420 |
Linguistic Interference Between Arabic and the Romance Languages | 443 |
Further Listings and Categorisations of Arabic Words in IberoRomance | 452 |
The Ways of Remembering | 485 |
The Legacy of Islam in Spanish Literature | 505 |
MUSIC | 512 |
Music in Islamic Spain | 555 |
Two Paradoxes in the Islamic Art of the Spanish Peninsula | 583 |
The Mudejar Tradition in Architecture | 592 |
Islamic Thought in the Iberian Peninsula | 777 |
The Philosophy of Ibn Rushd | 804 |
A Turning Point in Arabic Philo | 830 |
The Ulama of alAndalus | 849 |
Muslim Religious Practices in alAndalus 2nd8th4th10th Centuries | 878 |
Heresy in alAndalus | 895 |
Andalusī Mysticism and the Rise of Ibn Arabi | 909 |
Natural and Technical Sciences in alAndalus | 937 |
The Exact Sciences in alAndalus | 952 |
Hydraulic Technology in alAndalus | 974 |
Agriculture in Muslim Spain | 987 |
The Use of Plants for Dyeing and Clothing | 1000 |
Notes towards a Typology | 1016 |
The Translating Activity in Medieval Spain | 1036 |
A Final Assessment | 1059 |
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Common terms and phrases
5th/11th century Abbās Abd al-Rahman Abd al-Rahman III Abd Allah Abū Ahmad al-Andalus al-Hakam al-Manşūr al-Mu'tamid Al-Sharh Alfonso Alhambra Alī Almohad Almoravid amir Andalus Andalusi Andalusi poetry árabe Arabic poetry Banū Beirut Berber Cairo Caliphate calligraphy Castile Castilian Christian Columbus conquest Córdoba Cordoban culture Dīwān East Eastern España Estudios example fact García Gómez Granada Hayy Hispano-Arabic Iberian Peninsula Ibid Ibn Hazm Ibn Khaldūn Ibn Rushd Ibn Tufayl Ibn Tūmart Ibn Zaydūn important Islamic Jewish Jews kharja king kingdom Kitāb kufic language later Lévi-Provençal literary literature Madrid Maghrib Málaga material intellect medieval merchants Moriscos mosque Mozarabs Mudejar Muhammad Muslim Spain musulmane muwashshaha Nasrid North Africa origin palace Paris period philosophy poems poetic poets political qādī Quran religious revolt Romance rule ruler Saragossa scholars Seville siglo social society Spanish Tawq tion Toledo tradition trans translation Umayyad Valencia verse Yūsuf zajal