TY - BOOK ID - 119251107 TI - Al-Andalus in motion : travelling concepts and cross-cultural contexts AU - Weiss, Julian AU - Vakil, AbdoolKarim AU - Scott, Rachel PY - 2021 SN - 1800102232 1897747381 PB - Woodbridge, Suffolk : King's College London Centre for Late Antique & Medieval Studies, DB - UniCat KW - Arabs KW - Muslims KW - Jews KW - Sephardim KW - Travel writing KW - Travel writers KW - Travel writers. KW - Sephardim. KW - Literature. KW - Jews. KW - Arabs. KW - Civilization. KW - Muslims. KW - Influence. KW - History KW - Arab influences. KW - To 1516 KW - Spain KW - Iberian Peninsula KW - Orient KW - Europe KW - Asia KW - Spain. KW - Civilization KW - Literatures KW - History and criticism. KW - In literature KW - Mohammedans KW - Moors (People) KW - Moslems KW - Muhammadans KW - Musalmans KW - Mussalmans KW - Mussulmans KW - Mussulmen KW - Religious adherents KW - Islam KW - Barbarism KW - Civilisation KW - Auxiliary sciences of history KW - Culture KW - Ethnology KW - Semites KW - Hebrews KW - Israelites KW - Jewish people KW - Jewish question KW - Jewry KW - Judaic people KW - Judaists KW - Judaism KW - Belles-lettres KW - Western literature (Western countries) KW - World literature KW - Philology KW - Authors KW - Authorship KW - Jews, Sephardic KW - Ladinos (Spanish Jews) KW - Sefardic Jews KW - Sephardi Jews KW - Sephardic Jews KW - Jews, Portuguese KW - Jews, Spanish KW - Travel KW - Hispania (Iberian Peninsula) KW - Hispánica, Península KW - Iberia (Iberian Peninsula) KW - Ibérica, Península KW - Península Hispánica KW - Península Ibérica KW - Espagne KW - Espainiako Erresuma KW - España KW - Espanha KW - Espanja KW - Espanya KW - Estado Español KW - Hispania KW - Hiszpania KW - Isupania KW - Kingdom of Spain KW - Regne d'Espanya KW - Reiaume d'Espanha KW - Reino de España KW - Reino d'Espanya KW - Reinu d'España KW - Sefarad KW - Sepharad KW - Shpanie KW - Shpanye KW - Spanien KW - Spanish State KW - Supein KW - East KW - Iberia KW - Península KW - Islamic rule. KW - al-Andalus. KW - colonialism. KW - cultural transmission. KW - medieval Iberia. KW - orientalism. KW - religious pluralism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:119251107 AB - At a time when the discourse of a clash of civilisations has been re-grounded anew in scaremongering and dog-whistle politics over a Hispanic 'challenge' to America and a Muslim 'challenge' to European societies, and in the context of the War on Terror and migration panics, evocations of al-Andalus - medieval Iberia under Islamic rule - have gained new and hotly polemic topicality, championed and contested as either exemplary models or hoodwinking myths.
The essays in this volume explore how al-Andalus has been transformed into a 'travelling concept': that is, a place in time that has transcended its original geographic and historical location to become a figure of thought with global reach. They show how Iberia's medieval past, where Islam, Judaism and Christianity co-existed in complex, paradoxical and productive ways, has offered individuals and communities in multiple periods and places a means of engaging critically and imaginatively with questions of religious pluralism, orientalism and colonialism, exile and migration, intercultural contact and national identity. Travelling in their turn from the medieval to the contemporary world, across Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, and covering literary, cultural and political studies, critical Muslim and Jewish studies, they illustrate the contemporary significance of the Middle Ages as a site for collaborative interdisciplinary thinking. ER -