Hispano-Arabic Literature and the Early Provencal Lyrics
Hispano-Arabic Literature and the Early Provencal Lyrics

Author: J. A. Abu-Haidar

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-16

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1136808779

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As the distinctive contribution of Islamic Spain to Arabic literature, the strophic muwashshahand zajal are still viewed by some as a development from putative Romance prototypes. No less than seven theories of origin of the Provençal lyrics have been proffered, foremost among them being the Arabic origins theory. This book lets the strophic muwashshah tell its own tale of a natural development in the context of classical Arabic literature.

Hispano-Arabic Literature and the Early Provencal Lyrics
Hispano-Arabic Literature and the Early Provencal Lyrics

Author: J. A. Abu-Haidar

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-16

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1136808841

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As the distinctive contribution of Islamic Spain to Arabic literature, the strophic muwashshahand zajal are still viewed by some as a development from putative Romance prototypes. No less than seven theories of origin of the Provençal lyrics have been proffered, foremost among them being the Arabic origins theory. This book lets the strophic muwashshah tell its own tale of a natural development in the context of classical Arabic literature.

Ten Hispano-Arabic Strophic Songs in the Modern Oral Tradition
Ten Hispano-Arabic Strophic Songs in the Modern Oral Tradition

Author: Benjamin M. Liu

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1989-01-01

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 9780520097513

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This work explores the literary and musical connections between Hispano-Arabic strophic songs of the muwashshaha-zajal genre, and their medieval Romance cognates, the ballata, cantiga, dansa, rondeau, villancico, and virelai. The authors begin with a general essay based on recent scholarship in Arabic, Romance, and ethnomusicological studies and then present a translation of Al-Tifashi's key 13th-century Arabic treatise on the musical tradition of Arab Spain. The appendices provide texts and translations of ten poems that modern scholarship attributes to or authenticates as part of the Hispano-Arabic song repertory, and musical notations of these texts as sung in Arab countries today. The authors suggest that the living tradition of Andalusian music surviving in the Arab world preserves a priceless echo, be it ever so distorted, of the lost tradition of Hispano-Arabic songs. They conclude that this tradition was a subtle blending of imported Oriental elements combined with others native to the Romance-singing Iberian Peninsula.

The Literature of Al-Andalus
The Literature of Al-Andalus

Author: María Rosa Menocal

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-11-02

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 0521030234

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The Literature of Al-Andalus is an exploration of the culture of Iberia, present-day Spain and Portugal, during the period when it was an Islamic, mostly Arabic-speaking territory, from the eighth to the thirteenth century, and in the centuries following the Christian conquest when Arabic continued to be widely used. The volume embraces many other related spheres of Arabic culture including philosophy, art, architecture and music. It also extends the subject to other literatures - especially Hebrew and Romance literatures - that burgeoned alongside Arabic and created the distinctive hybrid culture of medieval Iberia. Edited by an Arabist, an Hebraist and a Romance scholar, with individual chapters compiled by a team of the world's leading experts of Islamic Iberia, Sicily and related cultures, this is a truly interdisciplinary and comparative work which offers a interesting approach to the field.

The Legacy of Muslim Spain
The Legacy of Muslim Spain

Author: Salma Khadra Jayyusi

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 1164

ISBN-13: 9789004095991

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The civilisation of medieval Muslim Spain is perhaps the most brilliant and prosperous of its age and has been essential to the direction which civilisation in medieval Europe took. This volume is the first ever in any language to deal in a really comprehensive manner with all major aspects of Islamic civilisation in medieval Spain.