It’s a research paper based on your interests towards any of the topics related to Al-andalus and teachings we’ve done. 3 primary sources required. <\/p>\n
For context of the work we’ve done in class, this is a description of the class: Al-Andalus, as Spain and Portugal were known in Arabic during their period of Muslim rule
\nfrom 711-1492, was one of the longest-lasting sites of encounter between medieval Jews,
\nChristians and Muslims. This class focuses on the cultural history of this encounter. We will
\nconsider medieval written sources, including chronicles, poetry, treaties and diplomatic
\ndocuments. Alongside these texts, we will examine objects including ivories, metalwork,
\nceramics, and silks, as well as architecture including synagogues, mosques, churches and
\npalaces. Oftentimes, political and religious texts deal with religious difference polemically, even
\nas poetry and material culture betray a fascination with the artist or patron’s ostensible enemies.
\nOur discussion will focus particularly on the different perspectives written and material sources
\nprovide, and will analyze how scholars have addressed these challenges. We will also examine
\nthe people, ideas, goods and technologies that successively transformed al-Andalus and its
\nneighbors, and will discuss to what extent al-Andalus should be seen as exceptional, in the
\ncontext of Europe and of the broader Islamic world.
\nWe begin the class with the end of the Visigothic period and the arrival of the first Muslim
\narmies on the Peninsula in 711, and end with the aftermath of the expulsion of the Jews and the
\nconquest of Nasrid Granada in 1492. Our discussion will focus on close analysis of texts, objects
\nand spaces ranging from apocalyptic Beatus manuscripts produced by Mozarab Christians under
\nIslamic rule to the new bilingual poetic forms produced under the Berber Almohad regime. We
\nwill also read sources produced by historians, art historians and scholars of literature and
\ncritically analyze their arguments. We close the course with a discussion of the ways in which al-
\nAndalus has been understood and deployed in the modern period, by figures from Newt Gingrich
\nto the Madrid bombers.Al-Andalus, as Spain and Portugal were known in Arabic during their period of Muslim rule
\nfrom 711-1492, was one of the longest-lasting sites of encounter between medieval Jews,
\nChristians and Muslims. This class focuses on the cultural history of this encounter. We will
\nconsider medieval written sources, including chronicles, poetry, treaties and diplomatic
\ndocuments. Alongside these texts, we will examine objects including ivories, metalwork,
\nceramics, and silks, as well as architecture including synagogues, mosques, churches and
\npalaces. Oftentimes, political and religious texts deal with religious difference polemically, even
\nas poetry and material culture betray a fascination with the artist or patron’s ostensible enemies.
\nOur discussion will focus particularly on the different perspectives written and material sources
\nprovide, and will analyze how scholars have addressed these challenges. We will also examine
\nthe people, ideas, goods and technologies that successively transformed al-Andalus and its
\nneighbors, and will discuss to what extent al-Andalus should be seen as exceptional, in the
\ncontext of Europe and of the broader Islamic world.
\nWe begin the class with the end of the Visigothic period and the arrival of the first Muslim
\narmies on the Peninsula in 711, and end with the aftermath of the expulsion of the Jews and the
\nconquest of Nasrid Granada in 1492. Our discussion will focus on close analysis of texts, objects
\nand spaces ranging from apocalyptic Beatus manuscripts produced by Mozarab Christians under
\nIslamic rule to the new bilingual poetic forms produced under the Berber Almohad regime. We
\nwill also read sources produced by historians, art historians and scholars of literature and
\ncritically analyze their arguments. We close the course with a discussion of the ways in which al-
\nAndalus has been understood and deployed in the modern period, by figures from Newt Gingrich
\nto the Madrid bombers.<\/div>\n
I will also include readings we’ve done. <\/div>\n
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