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Looking Back at al-Andalus: The Poetics of Loss and Nostalgia in Medieval Arabic and Hebrew Literature

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Through an examination of a variety of literary genres composed in Arabic and Hebrew, this book examines the literary definition of al-Andalus by taking into account the role of memory, language, and literary convention in analyses of texts composed following cultural and political challenges to Arab hegemony in the Iberian Peninsula.

Author(s): Alexander E. Elinson
Series: Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, 34
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2009

Language: English
Pages: 190
City: Leiden

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction The Poetics of Loss and Nostalgia in Muslim Spain
Chapter One Written in Stone: the Andalusï rithä' al-mudun in the Arabic Elegiac Tradition
Chapter Two Weeping over the Poetic Past: Poetry into Prose in al-Saraqustï's Qayrawan Maqäma
Chapter Three Al-Andalus and Sefarad in the Hebrew Qasïda
Chapter Four The View from al-Andalus: Looking East, West, and South for Andalusï Identity
Conclusion A Final Look Back
Appendix Select Arabic and Hebrew Texts
Works Cited
Index