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Studies on the Muwaššaḥ and the Kharja
Muwaššah, Zajal, Kharja
Author: Henk Heijkoop
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9004138226
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This bibliography - intended to be as complete as possible - provides information on written material in 22 languages about "muwassa?" and "zajal" (poetical strophic forms in al-Andalus during the Middle Ages) and the "kharja" (final segment of "muwassa?" and some "zajals"), and about their popularity in East and West.
The "kharjas"
Author: Richard Hitchcock
Publisher: DS Brewer
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9780729303897
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Ornament of the World
Author: Maria Rosa Menocal
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 2009-11-29
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0316092797
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This classic bestseller — the inspiration for the PBS series — is an "illuminating and even inspiring" portrait of medieval Spain that explores the golden age when Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in an atmosphere of tolerance (Los Angeles Times). This enthralling history, widely hailed as a revelation of a "lost" golden age, brings to vivid life the rich and thriving culture of medieval Spain, where for more than seven centuries Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in an atmosphere of tolerance, and where literature, science, and the arts flourished. "It is no exaggeration to say that what we presumptuously call 'Western' culture is owed in large measure to the Andalusian enlightenment...This book partly restores a world we have lost." —Christopher Hitchens, The Nation
Medieval Oral Literature
Author: Karl Reichl
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011-11-30
Total Pages: 768
ISBN-13: 3110241129
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Medieval literature is to a large degree shaped by orality, not only with regard to performance, but also to transmission and composition. Although problems of orality have been much discussed by medievalists, there is to date no comprehensive handbook on this topic. ‘Medieval Oral Literature’, a volume in the ‘De Gruyter Lexikon’ series, was written by an international team of twenty-five scholars and offers a thorough discussion of theoretical approaches as well as detailed presentations of individual traditions and genres. In addition to chapters on the oral-formulaic theory, on the interplay of orality and writing in the Early Middle Ages, on performance and performers, on oral poetics and on ritual aspects of orality, there are chapters on the Older Germanic, Romance, Middle High German, Middle English, Celtic, Greek-Byzantine, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian and Turkish traditions of oral literature. There is a special focus on epic and lyric, genres that are also discussed in separate chapters, with additional chapters on the ballad and on drama.
The Literature of Al-Andalus
Author: María Rosa Menocal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-11-02
Total Pages: 521
ISBN-13: 0521030234
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Literature of Al-Andalus is an exploration of the culture of Iberia, present-day Spain and Portugal, during the period when it was an Islamic, mostly Arabic-speaking territory, from the eighth to the thirteenth century, and in the centuries following the Christian conquest when Arabic continued to be widely used. The volume embraces many other related spheres of Arabic culture including philosophy, art, architecture and music. It also extends the subject to other literatures - especially Hebrew and Romance literatures - that burgeoned alongside Arabic and created the distinctive hybrid culture of medieval Iberia. Edited by an Arabist, an Hebraist and a Romance scholar, with individual chapters compiled by a team of the world's leading experts of Islamic Iberia, Sicily and related cultures, this is a truly interdisciplinary and comparative work which offers a interesting approach to the field.
Hispano-Arabic Literature and the Early Provencal Lyrics
Author: J. A. Abu-Haidar
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-16
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1136808779
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As the distinctive contribution of Islamic Spain to Arabic literature, the strophic muwashshahand zajal are still viewed by some as a development from putative Romance prototypes. No less than seven theories of origin of the Provençal lyrics have been proffered, foremost among them being the Arabic origins theory. This book lets the strophic muwashshah tell its own tale of a natural development in the context of classical Arabic literature.
Love Songs from al-Andalus
Author: Otto Zwartjes
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-08-21
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9004624252
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Love Songs from al-Andalus presents an updated survey of the debates concerning Andalusian strophic poetry and their Kharjas. Attention is focused on the texts themselves and their literary implications as testimonies of the multicultural and multilingual society of al-Andalus. Since languages and alphabets of the three major religions have been used, these texts are studies historically, prosodically, thematically and stylistically and are related to the three literary traditions. One of the novelties of this study is the fact that it has been based upon the most updated edition and interpretations of the texts introducing emendations in over a third of its contents and making obsolete most of the hundreds of previous articles and books on the topic. Another novelty is the fact that stylistic features have been studied according to the Arabic model, casting new light on them. The survey of thematic relationships and the analysis of code-switching phenomena add weight to the conclusions of this research.
Feminist Traditions in Andalusi-Moroccan Oral Narratives
Author: H. Lebbady
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009-09-28
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 0230100732
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this volume, Lebbady has compiled and translated seven Andalusi women's tales from the north of Morocco, and analyzes them from a postcolonial theoretical perspective, finding in the women far more wit and agency than western stereotypes would suggest.
