The Study of al-Andalus: The Scholarship and Legacy of James T. Monroe

by Michelle M. Hamilton (Editor), David A. Wacks (Editor)

Overview

The Study of al-Andalus is a collection of essays by students and colleagues of James T. Monroe, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Arabic at the University of California, Berkeley, and the premier scholar of Andalusi (Hispano-Arabic) literature in the United States. The introduction by the editors explains the impact Monroe’s scholarship has had on the fields of Arabic, Spanish, and comparative literatures.

The first essay in the collection explains the impact of Monroe’s watershed study Islam and Arabs in Spanish Scholarship (1971). The ten essays that follow explore the many ways in which Monroe’s scholarship has inspired further study in topics including Hispano-Arabic, Hebrew, and Romance literatures; Persian epic poetry; the impact of Andalusi literature in Egypt and the Arab East; and the lasting legacy of the expulsion of Spain’s last Muslims (the Moriscos) in the Early Modern and Modern Arab world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674984462
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	07/01/2018
Series:	Ilex Series , #19
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.68(d)

About the Author

Michelle M. Hamilton is Director of Medieval Studies and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

David A. Wacks is Professor of Spanish at the University of Oregon.

Table of Contents

The Study of al-Andalus: The Scholarship and Legacy of James T. Monroe Michelle M. Hamilton David A. Wacks 1

Revisiting Islam and the Arabs in Spanish Scholarship, by James T. Monroe Manuela Marín 17

From Sawt to Muwashshah: A Musical Revolution Dwight Reynolds 35

Some Andalusi Muwashshahat and Their Eastern Imitations Teresa Garulo 53

Monroe's Methodology in Analyzing Andalusi Meters and Its Relevance to a Comparative Analysis of a Classical Persian Meter, the mutaqarib Olga M. Davidson 87

Seville, Where Mihrabs Weep and Pulpits Lament: Al-Rundi's Elegy in the Classical Poetic Tradition Raymond K. Farrin 97

Astrology, Jinn, and Magical Healing in al-Saraqusti's Forty-sixth maqama Michelle M. Hamilton 122

"The Threefold Cord": On Hebrew and Arabic in the Work and Identity of Judah al-harizi Shamma Boyarin 140

Drama and Multiculturalism in Crisis: Ibn Daniyal's Shadow Play Samuel England 160

Heraclius in al-Andalus Maribel Fierro 180

"Ziyad ibn 'Amir al-Kinana': Andalusi Muslim Crusade Literature David A. Wacks 211

The Expulsion of the Andalusis in Arab Memory, 1609/1614-2014 Nabil Matar 229

Contributors 249

Index 253