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Nicola Carpentieri, Carol Symes - Medieval Sicily, al-Andalus, and the Maghrib, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Medieval Sicily, al-Andalus, and the Maghrib

Writing in Times of Turmoil

Av Nicola Carpentieri, Carol Symes

Del i serien The Medieval Globe Books

1951 kr

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This volume explores a millennium of multilingual literary exchanges among the peoples of Sicily, the Iberian Peninsula, and North Africa: the Maghrib, or westernmost strongholds of medieval Islam. Beginning in the seventh century, Muslim expansion into the western Mediterranean initiated a new phase in the layering of heterogeneous peoples and languages in this perennial contact zone: Arabs and Berbers, Christians and Jews, Sunnī and Shīʿa Muslims, Greeks and Latins all shaped, shared, and contested identities, hybrid genealogies of knowledge, and fragile but vital political alliances. Waves of migration and the movement of scholars and poets transmitted and expanded canonical and convergent literary forms while facilitating the rise of new vernaculars and the adoption of "foreign" cultural practices and themes. These essays excavate the complexities of the literary artefacts produced in these times of turmoil, offering new perspectives on the intellectual networks and traditions that proved instrumental in overcoming the often traumatic transitions among political and/or religious regimes.
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Nicola Carpentieri is Assistant Professor and Chair of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Connecticut. He specializes in medieval Arabic poetry in the western Mediterranean and in Greek, Arabic, and Latin medical knowledge. He obtained his PhD from Harvard University in 2012. Carol Symes is the Lynn M. Martin Professorial Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on the history of documentary practices and communication media in medieval Europe.

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While it is certainly the case that readers will find particular value in the individual articles that make up Medieval Sicily, al-Andalus, and the Maghrib, the thematic coherence of the parts creates a valuable whole that should not be overlooked. This volume demonstrates the advantages of using wide geographic perspectives and examining not just the poles of conflict and coexistence, but the ways in which the turmoil of life in the complex world of the Mediterranean was a culturally "generative process."

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