Looking back at al-Andalus
Subtitle: the poetics of loss and nostalgia in medieval Arabic and Hebrew literature
By: by Alexander E. Elinson.
Series: Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng; ara; heb
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9789004166806
Subjects: Arabic literature -- History and criticism; Hebrew literature -- History and criticism; Nostalgia in literature; Andalusia (Spain) -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The poetics of loss and nostalgia in Muslim Spain; title: Written in stone : the Andalusi ritha' al-mudun in the Arabic elegiac tradition; title: Weeping over the poetic past: poetry into prose in al-Saraqusti's Qayrawan maqama; title: Al-Andalus and Sefarad in the Hebrew qasida; title: The view from al-Andalus : looking east, west, and south for Andalusi identity; title: A final look back; title: Select Arabic and Hebrew texts.