Power in the portrayal : representations of Jews and Muslims in eleventh- and twelfth-century Islamic Spain /
Power in the Portrayal unveils a fresh and vital perspective on power relations in eleventh- and twelfth-century Muslim Spain as reflected in historical and literary texts of the period. Employing the methods of the new historical literary study in looking at a range of texts, Ross Brann reveals the...
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2002.
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| Series: | Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Power in the portrayal
- Force of character: three eleventh-century Andalusi-Muslim views of Ismāʼīl ibn Naghrīla (Samuel the Nagid) (Ṭaqabāt al-umam; Ibn Ḥayyān al-Qurṭubī apud al-Iḥāṭa fī akhbār gharnāṭa; al-Tibyān)
- An Andalusi-Muslim literary typology of Jewish heresy and sedition: al-Fiṣal fī l-milal wal-ahwāʼ wal-niḥal and Al-Radd ʻalā ibn al-naghrīla al-yahūdī (ʻAlī ibn Ḥazm)
- Textualizing ambivalence: Ibn Bassām's literary miscellany, The treasury concerning the merits of the people of Iberia (al-Dhakhīra fī maḥāsin ahl al-jazīra)
- Muslim counterparts, rivals, mentors, and foes: a trope of Andalusi-Jewish identity? The problem of Andalusi-Jewish representations of Muslims
- The silence of the Jews: Judah al-Ḥarizi's Picaresque tale of the Muslim astrologer.