You travel to Toledo, C rdoba, Granada and Sevilla, where lectures are given at historic sites, monuments and museums, mosques, synagogues, and cathedrals. Students will learn about the Islamic influence on the rich traditions of the Iberian Peninsula, including the establishment of the Umayyad Caliphte in C rdoba adn the Nassrid Emirate in Granada. Muslim, Jewish, and Christian coexistence and tolerance helped produce such cultural and sociqal monuments as the Great Mosque of C rdoba, the Cathedral of Toledo, the Giralda of Sevilla, and the Alhambra in Granada. All lectures are delivered in situ .
Course evaluation is based on attendance, participation, quizzes and an essay examination.
May not be taken as an audit. A fourteen-day interdisciplinary seminar given in Castilla la Nueva and Andalucia. Lectures are in situ. To say it in a single metaphor, the thirteenth century Synagogue of Santa Maria la Blanca, erected long after the reconquest of Toledo by Alfonso VI, is witness to an underlying Islamic economic, social and cultural tolerance rarely found in European history. The case of al-Andalus is no exception.