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Till God Inherits the Earth deals with the origins and evolution of the Islamic institution of pious endowments in al-Andalus, analysing its juridical basis and its social-economic role. Evidence is primarily drawn from Andalusi Maliki jurisprudence and from narrative and biographical traditional sources as well. Separate chapters examine private and public donations and special importance is given to the analysis of the public goals of the institution, namely, charitative, religious (mosques, rabitas), educational and for the jihad. The book is completed with several appendices including complementary information, translations of Arabic texts and figures. This study provides us with a complete knowledge of several and important issues such as the relevance of Islamic jurisprudence as an historical source, the structure of economic property, the idea of charity, the Islamic concept of general or common interest and the social and juridical role of men of religion.
Islam. --- Wakf. --- Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations (Islamic law) --- Islamic law --- Islamitisch Spanje. --- Spain --- History --- Fondations (droit islamique) --- Waqfs --- Droit islamique --- Al-Andalus --- Espagne --- Moyen âge --- Histoire --- Sources --- 711-1516
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Juanita la Larga (1896), the third of Juan Valera's eponymous novels with a female protagonist, unfolds in a small town in nineteenth-century Spain and tells the story of a young girl's romance with a wealthy widower many years her senior.
Andalusia (Spain) --- Andalucía (Spain) --- Andalousie (Spain) --- Andalusien (Spain) --- Autonomous Community of Andalusia (Spain) --- Communauté autonome d'Andalousie (Spain) --- Comunidad Autónoma de Andalucía (Spain) --- Baetica (Spain) --- Junta de Andalucía (Spain) --- Andalus (Spain) --- Bética --- Al-Andalus --- Fiction
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Spanish literature --- Man-woman relationships --- Andalusia (Spain) --- Andalucía (Spain) --- Andalousie (Spain) --- Andalusien (Spain) --- Autonomous Community of Andalusia (Spain) --- Communauté autonome d'Andalousie (Spain) --- Comunidad Autónoma de Andalucía (Spain) --- Baetica (Spain) --- Junta de Andalucía (Spain) --- Andalus (Spain) --- Bética --- Al-Andalus
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In this fourth volume of the landmark Poems for the Millennium series, Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour present a comprehensive anthology of the written and oral literatures of the Maghreb, the region of North Africa that spans the modern nation states of Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Mauritania, and including a section on the influential Arabo-Berber and Jewish literary culture of Al-Andalus, which flourished in Spain between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. Beginning with the earliest pictograms and rock drawings and ending with the work of the current generation of post-independence and diasporic writers, this volume takes in a range of cultures and voices, including Berber, Phoenician, Jewish, Roman, Vandal, Arab, Ottoman, and French. Though concentrating on oral and written poetry and narratives, the book also draws on historical and geographical treatises, philosophical and esoteric traditions, song lyrics, and current prose experiments. These selections are arranged in five chronological "diwans" or chapters, which are interrupted by a series of "books" that supply extra detail, giving context or covering specific cultural areas in concentrated fashion. The selections are contextualized by a general introduction that situates the importance of this little-known culture area and individual commentaries for nearly each author.
North African literature. --- african literature. --- african poetry. --- al andalus. --- algeria. --- anthology. --- arabo berber literature. --- book club reads. --- global literature. --- historical survey. --- historical. --- jewish literature. --- libya. --- lit analysis. --- lit students. --- literary criticism. --- literary critics. --- literary studies. --- literary. --- literature and culture. --- maghreb. --- mauritania. --- morocco. --- north africa. --- north african poets. --- oral literatures. --- poetry collection. --- spain. --- tunisia. --- world poetry.
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Jews, Christians, and Muslims all have a common belief in the sanctity of a core holy scripture, and commentary on scripture (exegesis) was at the heart of all three traditions in the Middle Ages. At the same time, because it dealt with issues such as the nature of the canon, the limits of acceptable interpretation, and the meaning of salvation history from the perspective of faith, exegesis was elaborated in the Middle Ages along the faultlines of interconfessional disputation and polemical conflict. This collection of thirteen essays by world-renowned scholars of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam explores the nature of exegesis during the High and especially the Late Middle Ages as a discourse of cross-cultural and interreligious conflict, paying particular attention to the commentaries of scholars in the western and southern Mediterranean from Iberia and Italy to Morocco and Egypt.Unlike other comparative studies of religion, this collection is not a chronological history or an encyclopedic guide. Instead, it presents essays in four conceptual clusters (“Writing on the Borders of Islam,” “Jewish-Christian Conflict,” “The Intellectual Activity of the Dominican Order,” and “Gender”) that explore medieval exegesis as a vehicle for the expression of communal or religious identity, one that reflects shared or competing notions of sacred history and sacred text. This timely book will appeal to scholars and lay readers alike and will be essential reading for students of comparative religion, historians charting the history of religious conflict in the medieval Mediterranean, and all those interested in the intersection of Jewish,Christian, and Muslim beliefs and practices.
Abrahamic religions. --- Religion --- History --- Christianity --- General. --- Medieval. --- Bible. --- Bible --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- History. --- 600-1500. --- Religions --- Antico Testamento --- Hebrew Bible --- Hebrew Scriptures --- Kitve-ḳodesh --- Miḳra --- Old Testament --- Palaia Diathēkē --- Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa --- Sean-Tiomna --- Stary Testament --- Tanakh --- Tawrāt --- Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim --- Torah, Neviʼim u-Khetuvim --- Velho Testamento --- Abrahamic Religions. --- Al-Andalus. --- Comparative Religion. --- Medieval Exegesis. --- Medieval Iberia. --- Mediterranean Studies. --- Religious Polemic. --- Sefarad.
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Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- Mediterranean Region & Greco-Roman World --- Mediterranean Region --- Andalusia (Spain) --- Circum-Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Area --- Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Sea Region --- Andalucía (Spain) --- Andalousie (Spain) --- Andalusien (Spain) --- Autonomous Community of Andalusia (Spain) --- Communauté autonome d'Andalousie (Spain) --- Comunidad Autónoma de Andalucía (Spain) --- Baetica (Spain) --- Junta de Andalucía (Spain) --- Andalus (Spain) --- Bética --- Al-Andalus --- Antiquities, Roman. --- History --- Antiquities. --- Inscriptions, Latin --- Shrines --- Antiquities
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Andalucia is the quintessence of Spain and yet, historically and culturally, it is surprisingly unlike the rest of the country. Its literary history began to develop with the Romans and reached an early flowering when Arabic poets drew on centuries of literary tradition, together with the landscapes and passions of Moorish Spain. Later, Prosper Mérimée, Byron and Washington Irving forged legends of exotic southern Spain that persist to this day and Spanish writers themselves captured the rich tapestry of Andalucian culture, from Cervantes' Seville to the Córdoba of Baroque poet Luis de Góngora and Lorca's 'hidden Andalucia'. With the advent of the Civil War, a new generation flocked to Andalucia and were inspired to write some of the Twentieth Century's most iconic works of literature, from Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls to Gerald Brenan's The Spanish Labyrinth and Laurie Lee's trilogy of books. As vibrant and compelling as the region itself, Andalucia: A Literary Guide for Travellers illuminates the very soul of Spain.
Literary journeys --- Bibliographical journeys --- Literary tourism --- Tourism --- Voyages and travels --- Andalusia (Spain) --- Andalucía (Spain) --- Andalousie (Spain) --- Andalusien (Spain) --- Autonomous Community of Andalusia (Spain) --- Communauté autonome d'Andalousie (Spain) --- Comunidad Autónoma de Andalucía (Spain) --- Baetica (Spain) --- Junta de Andalucía (Spain) --- Andalus (Spain) --- Bética --- Al-Andalus --- Literary landmarks. --- Authors --- Landmarks, Literary --- Historic buildings --- Literature --- Homes and haunts --- History and criticism --- Spain --- Description and travel. --- In literature.
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The 12 articles of this volume show the many facets of contact in al-Andalus and Medieval Iberia, reminding us of how contact influenced art and learning in a wide range of fields: politics, science, philosophy, music and religion; offering views of how contact between societies affects both language, stereotype and assimilation; examining how war and conflict (re)define the representation of ideas, places and people; and demonstrating how representations changed over time through contact and conflict. Lessons of the past apply today as al-Andalus captures the modern imagination and cultures continue to come into contact across borders which either allow fluid diffusion of ideas or block passage.
Acculturation --- Culture diffusion --- Cultural diffusion --- Diffusion of culture --- Culture --- Social change --- Culture contact --- Development education --- Civilization --- Ethnology --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Cultural fusion --- History --- Andalusia (Spain) --- Spain --- Iberian Peninsula --- Hispania (Iberian Peninsula) --- Hispánica, Península --- Iberia (Iberian Peninsula) --- Ibérica, Península --- Península Hispánica --- Península Ibérica --- Andalucía (Spain) --- Andalousie (Spain) --- Andalusien (Spain) --- Autonomous Community of Andalusia (Spain) --- Communauté autonome d'Andalousie (Spain) --- Comunidad Autónoma de Andalucía (Spain) --- Baetica (Spain) --- Junta de Andalucía (Spain) --- Andalus (Spain) --- Bética --- Al-Andalus --- Ethnic relations. --- Civilization. --- Culture contact (Acculturation)
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The province of Baetica, in present-day Spain, was one of the most important areas in the Roman Empire in terms of politics, economics, and culture. And in the late medieval period, it was the centre of a rich and powerful state, the Umayyad Caliphate. But the historical sources on the intervening years are limited, and we lack an accurate understanding of the evolution of the region. In recent years, however, archaeological research has begun to fill the gaps, and this book-built on more than a decade of fieldwork-provides an unprecedented overview of urban and rural development in the period.
RELIGION / General. --- Andalusia (Spain) --- Andalucía (Spain) --- Andalousie (Spain) --- Andalusien (Spain) --- Autonomous Community of Andalusia (Spain) --- Communauté autonome d'Andalousie (Spain) --- Comunidad Autónoma de Andalucía (Spain) --- Baetica (Spain) --- Junta de Andalucía (Spain) --- Andalus (Spain) --- Bética --- Al-Andalus --- History. --- Church history. --- Christian antiquities --- Romans --- Ethnology --- Italic peoples --- Latini (Italic people) --- Antiquities, Christian --- Antiquities, Ecclesiastical --- Archaeology, Christian --- Christian archaeology --- Church antiquities --- Ecclesiastical antiquities --- Monumental theology --- Antiquities --- Byzantine antiquities --- Christianity --- Architecture, Early Christian --- Church architecture --- Antiquities. --- History --- Late Antique Baetica, Christianization, Archaeology, Andalucia, Hispania Baetica.
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Al-Andalus, the Arabic name for the medieval Islamic state in Iberia, endured for over 750 years following the Arab and Berber conquest of Hispania in 711. While the popular perception of al-Andalus is that of a land of religious tolerance and cultural cooperation, the fact is that we know relatively little about how Muslims governed Christians and Jews in al-Andalus and about social relations among Muslims, Christians, and Jews. In Defining Boundaries in al-Andalus, Janina M. Safran takes a close look at the structure and practice of Muslim political and legal-religious authority and offers a rare look at intercommunal life in Iberia during the first three centuries of Islamic rule.Safran makes creative use of a body of evidence that until now has gone largely untapped by historians-the writings and opinions of Andalusi and Maghribi jurists during the Umayyad dynasty. These sources enable her to bring to life a society undergoing dramatic transformation. Obvious differences between conquerors and conquered and Muslims and non-Muslims became blurred over time by transculturation, intermarriage, and conversion. Safran examines ample evidence of intimate contact between individuals of different religious communities and of legal-juridical accommodation to develop an argument about how legal-religious authorities interpreted the social contract between the Muslim regime and the Christian and Jewish populations. Providing a variety of examples of boundary-testing and negotiation and bringing judges, jurists, and their legal opinions and texts into the narrative of Andalusi history, Safran deepens our understanding of the politics of Umayyad rule, makes Islamic law tangibly social, and renders intercommunal relations vividly personal.
Judaism --- Islam --- Christianity and other religions --- Islamic law --- Dhimmis (Islamic law) --- Dhimmis --- Non-Muslims (Islamic law) --- Civil law (Islamic law) --- Law, Arab --- Law, Islamic --- Law in the Qurʼan --- Sharia (Islamic law) --- Shariʻah (Islamic law) --- Law, Oriental --- Law, Semitic --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- Jews --- Semites --- Christianity --- Syncretism (Christianity) --- Relations --- History --- Religion --- Andalusia (Spain) --- Spain --- Andalucía (Spain) --- Andalousie (Spain) --- Andalusien (Spain) --- Autonomous Community of Andalusia (Spain) --- Communauté autonome d'Andalousie (Spain) --- Comunidad Autónoma de Andalucía (Spain) --- Baetica (Spain) --- Junta de Andalucía (Spain) --- Andalus (Spain) --- Bética --- Al-Andalus --- Ethnic relations. --- Civilization
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