This volume explores a millennium of multilingual literary exchanges among the peoples of Sicily, the Iberian Peninsula, and North Africa: the Maghrib, or westernmost strongholds of medieval Islam. Beginning in the seventh century, Muslim expansion into the western Mediterranean initiated a new phase in the layering of heterogeneous peoples and languages in this perennial contact zone: Arabs and Berbers, Christians and Jews, Sunnī and Shīʿa Muslims, Greeks and Latins all shaped, shared, and contested identities, hybrid genealogies of knowledge, and fragile but vital political alliances. Waves of migration and the movement of scholars and poets transmitted and expanded canonical and convergent literary forms while facilitating the rise of new vernaculars and the adoption of "foreign" cultural practices and themes. These essays excavate the complexities of the literary artefacts produced in these times of turmoil, offering new perspectives on the intellectual networks and traditions that proved instrumental in overcoming the often traumatic transitions among political and/or religious regimes.
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Bibliographische Angaben
Auflage
1/2020
Copyrightjahr
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-64189-385-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-64189-386-2
Verlag
Arc Humanities Press, Yorkshire
Reihe
The Medieval Globe Books
Sprache
Englisch
Seiten
186
Produkttyp
Sammelband
Inhaltsverzeichnis
KapitelSeiten
Table of contents Kein Zugriff
Acknowledgments Kein Zugriff
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Maghribī Societies: Between Convergence and Clash Kein Zugriff
Writing the Twilight: History, Travel, and Romance Kein Zugriff
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Prophetic Discourse in the Latin West Kein Zugriff
Alvarus and the Indiculus luminosus Kein Zugriff
Alvarus as Prophet Kein Zugriff
Defamiliarizing Islam with the “Evidence of Our Eyes” Kein Zugriff
Prophetic Resistance and Apostolic Preaching Kein Zugriff
Conclusion Kein Zugriff
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Munāẓara and the Traditionalists of Qayrawān Kein Zugriff
The Authors of Disputations and Their Audiences Kein Zugriff
Ibn al-Ḥaddad’s munāẓarāt with the Fatimid dā'i Abū-l-'Abbās Kein Zugriff
Munāẓara and the Politics of Writing a Biographic Entry Kein Zugriff
The Writing of the Kitāb al-Munāẓarat in the Context of Controversies over Philosophical Doctrines in Fatimid Qayrawān Kein Zugriff
Conclusion Kein Zugriff
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Notes from the Life of Jawdhar Kein Zugriff
Lost Histories and Lost Messages Kein Zugriff
Messengers and Messaging in the Norman Conquest Sources Kein Zugriff
Interpreters, Translators, and Intermediaries Kein Zugriff
Treaties with the Conquered Peoples Kein Zugriff
Some Concluding Thoughts Kein Zugriff
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The Precedents for Describing Defeat Kein Zugriff
The Theme of Defeat in the Sources for Sicily and al-Andalus Kein Zugriff
Cherchez la femme: Some Observations on a Flexible Motif Kein Zugriff
Preliminary Conclusions Kein Zugriff
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The Division between Mashriq and Maghrib: From Eastern Tenth-Century Geographers to Ibn Jubayr’s Riḥla Kein Zugriff
Almohads, Fatimids, and the Role of Saladin in Ibn Jubayr’s Riḥla Kein Zugriff
Comparing Ibn Jubayr’s Descriptions of Muslim Religious Buildings and That of the Egyptian Temple of Akhmīm Kein Zugriff
Describing the Church of St. Mary of the Admiral in Palermo Kein Zugriff
Some Concluding Remarks Kein Zugriff
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Territorial Settings and Ethno-Linguistic Origins Kein Zugriff
Religious Conversion and Political Destiny Kein Zugriff
Emperor Flores and His Legacy: Roman Hispania Answers the Morisco Question Kein Zugriff
