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- Title: Looking Back at Al-Andalus: The Poetics of Loss and Nostalgia in Medieval Arabic and Hebrew Literature (Book Review)
- Author : The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 204 KB
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Looking Back at al-Andalus: The Poetics of Loss and Nostalgia in Medieval Arabic and Hebrew Literature. By Alexander E. Elinson. Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, vol. 34. Leiden: Brill, 2009. Pp. x + 185. $133. This book is based on a doctoral dissertation under the guidance of Columbia University's Magda al-Nowaihi (1958-2002), the late scholar of medieval Arabic poetry. The method on which the book is based is comparative. The book's main objective is to learn how and to what extent Arabic poems of Andalusia that express the loss of Muslim cities to the Christian kingdoms (ritha al-mudun) may have been derived from the pre-Islamic tradition of reminiscing about the beloved's campsite, particularly in the opening lines (naslb). A second concern treats two separate literary genres in Andalusian Arabic literature: poems written in quantitative measure (qasida) and narratives, or odes, written in rhymed prose (maqama). Finally, the book compares ritha al-mudun poetry with poems in Andalusian Hebrew literature.