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Power in the Portrayal unveils a fresh and vital perspective on power relations in eleventh- and twelfth-century Muslim Spain as reflected in historical and literary texts of the period. Employing the methods of the new historical literary study in looking at a range of texts, Ross Brann reveals the paradoxical relations between the Andalusi Muslim and Jewish elites in an era when long periods of tolerance and respect were punctuated by outbreaks of tension and hostility. The examined Arabic texts reveal a fragmented perception of the Jew in eleventh-century al-Andalus. They depict seemingly contradictory figures at whose poles are an intelligent, skilled, and noble Jew deserving of homage and a vile, stupid, and fiendish enemy of God and Islam. For their part, the Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic texts display a deep-seated reluctance to portray Muslims in any light at all. Brann cogently demonstrates that these representations of Jews and Muslims--each of which is concerned with issues of sovereignty and the exercise of power--reflect the shifting, fluctuating, and ambivalent relations between elite members of two of the ethno-religious communities of al-Andalus. Brann's accessible prose is enriched by his splendid translations; the original texts are also included. This book is the first to study the construction of social meaning in Andalusi Arabic, Judeo-Arabic, and Hebrew literary texts and historical chronicles. The novel approach illuminates nuances of respect, disinterest, contempt, and hatred reflected in the relationship between Muslims and Jews in medieval Spain.

Muslims in literature. --- Jews in literature. --- Judaism and literature --- Jews --- Arabic literature --- Middle Eastern literature --- North African literature --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Literature and Judaism --- Literature --- Intellectual life. --- Jewish authors --- History and criticism. --- History. --- 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 --- Ethnic relations. --- Jews in literature --- Muslims in literature --- 296 <460> --- 296*812 --- 297 <460> --- 933.73 --- 946.02 <093> --- 933.73 Geschiedenis van het Joodse volk: diaspora in Spanje, Portugal, Zuid-Frankrijk --- Geschiedenis van het Joodse volk: diaspora in Spanje, Portugal, Zuid-Frankrijk --- 296*812 Jodendom en antisemitisme--in de moderne tijd (voor 1933) --- Jodendom en antisemitisme--in de moderne tijd (voor 1933) --- 946.02 <093> Geschiedenis van Spanje: Arabische suprematie--(711-1479)--Historische bronnen --- Geschiedenis van Spanje: Arabische suprematie--(711-1479)--Historische bronnen --- Jewish authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- Intellectual life --- History --- Judaïsme. Jodendom--Spanje --- Islam. Mohammedanisme--Spanje

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To Christians the Iberian Peninsula was Hispania, to Muslims al-Andalus, and to Jews Sefarad. As much as these were all names given to the same real place, the names also constituted ideas, and like all ideas, they have histories of their own. To some, al-Andalus and Sefarad were the subjects of conventional expressions of attachment to and pride in homeland of the universal sort displayed in other Islamic lands and Jewish communities; but other Muslim and Jewish political, literary, and religious actors variously developed the notion that al-Andalus or Sefarad, its inhabitants, and their culture were exceptional and destined to play a central role in the history of their peoples.In Iberian Moorings Ross Brann traces how al-Andalus and Sefarad were invested with special political, cultural, and historical significance across the Middle Ages. This is the first work to analyze the tropes of Andalusi and Sefardi exceptionalism in comparative perspective. Brann focuses on the social power of these tropes in Andalusi Islamic and Sefardi Jewish cultures from the tenth through the twelfth century and reflects on their enduring influence and its expressions in scholarship, literature, and film down to the present day.

Exceptionalism --- Jews --- Muslims --- History --- Iberian Peninsula --- Historiography. --- Civilization --- History. --- Jewish Studies. --- Medieval and Renaissance Studies. --- Religion.

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