Iberian Moorings: Al-Andalus, Sefarad, and the Tropes of Exceptionalism

Ross Brann

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2021

Iberian Moorings

Al-Andalus, Sefarad, and the Tropes of Exceptionalism

Ross Brann

In the series The Middle Ages Series

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812297874

Overview
Contents

About this book

To Muslims the Iberian Peninsula was al-Andalus, to Jews it was Sefarad. Iberian Moorings traces how al-Andalus and Sefarad were invested with political, cultural, and historical significance across the Middle Ages and analyzes the tropes of Andalusi and Sefardi exceptionalism that linger in today's scholarship, literature, and film.

Author / Editor information

Ross Brann is Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies, Cornell University. He is author of The Compunctious Poet: Cultural Ambiguity and Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain and Power in the Portrayal: Representations of Muslims and Jews in Islamic Spain.

Reviews

"Iberian Moorings constitutes an original and compelling contribution to several disciplines that have woefully divided scholarship on Islamic al-Andalus from that of Hebrew Sefarad, and both from the bulk of scholarship on Christian Spain and western Europe. The study is the first of which I am aware to offer a full, diachronic and multivalenced investigation of the long-nurtured belief of Andalusi Muslim and Jewish elites in their cultural superiority and uniqueness, and the afterlife of that belief into our own times."—Susan Einbinder, University of Connecticut

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction. Andalusi and Sefardi Exceptionalism as Tropes of Islamic and Jewish Culture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Geography and Destiny: The Genesis of Andalusi Exceptionalism in the Umayyad Caliphal Age Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Chapter 2. Without al- Andalus, There Would Be No Sefarad: The Origins of Sefardi Exceptionalism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Chapter 3. The Cultural Turn: Andalusi Exceptionalism Through Arabic Adab, Following the Collapse of the Unitary State Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
Chapter 4. The Jerusalemite Exile That Is in Sefarad: Sefardi Exceptionalism (Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
Chapter 5. Out of Place with Exceptionalism on the Mind: Sefardi and Andalusi Travelers Abroad (Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Conclusion. Andalusi, Sefardi, and Spanish Exceptionalism: Reclaimed, Embraced, Repudiated, Re imagined Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 240
Illustrations
- Other: 0
Keywords: History; Religion; Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Jewish Studies

eBook

Published: May 28, 2021
ISBN: 9780812297874