Medieval Andalusian courtly culture in the Mediterranean
Subtitle: Ḥadīth Bayāḍ wa-Riyāḍ
By: Cynthia Robinson.
Series: Routledge studies in Middle Eastern literatures -- 10.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780415322447
Subjects: Ḥadīth Bayād wa-Riyād; Arabic poetry -- Spain -- Andalusia -- History and criticism; Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Spain -- Andalusia; Andalusia (Spain) -- Social life and customs; Andalusia (Spain) -- History -- Sources
Genres: Sources.
Other titles: Ḥadīth Bayāḍ wa-Riyāḍ.; Ḥadīth Bayād wa-Riyād. English.
Description: "Medieval Andalusian Courtly Culture discusses the thirteenth-century unicum manuscript of the Hadith Bayad wa Riyad, the only illustrated manuscript to have survived from more than eight centuries of Muslim and Arabic-speaking presence in present-day Spain. The manuscript is of paramount importance as it contains the only known illustrated version of the love story of Bayad wa Riyad." "The study will place this manuscript within the context of late medieval Mediterranean courtly culture. Texts and images will not, as is often the case, be analyzed in separate chapters; rather, the analysis will serve to point to the cohesion of what might be referred to as the currency of Mediterranean courtly culture, with this latter much changed from the earliest days of its existence as a cultural code in the eleventh and twelfth centuries." "Medieval Andalusian Courtly Culture in the Mediterranean is essential reading for scholars with interests in medieval Spain, Islamic art and Mediterranean courtly culture."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-220) and index.
Table of contents: title: Bayāḍ wa-Riyāḍ : translation; title: Love localized, science from afar : the image program of the Ḥadīth Bayāḍ wa-Riyāḍ; title: Alfonso, the Almohads and the 'Ajouz : the Ḥadīth Bayāḍ wa-Riyāḍ, courtliness and culture in thirteenth-century Iberia; title: Wandering in Babylon : the Ḥadīth Bayāḍ wa-Riyāḍ and the roman idyllique.; title: Translation; title: Love localized and science from afar : the image program of the Hadīth Bayād wa Riyād; title: Alfonso, the Almohads and the Ajouz in Al-Andalus : the Hadīth Bayād wa Riyād, courtliness and culture in thirteenth-century Iberia; title: Wandering in Babylon : the Hadīth Bayād wa Riyād and the Roman idyllique.