On Earth or in Poems : The Many Lives of al-Andalus / Eric Calderwood.
Calderwood, Eric, author.
2023
DP103 .C35 2023eb
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Title On Earth or in Poems : The Many Lives of al-Andalus / Eric Calderwood.
Author Calderwood, Eric, author.
ISBN 9780674292970
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674292970
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2023]
Copyright ©2023
Language English
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Description 1 online resource (352 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674292970 doi
Call Number DP103 .C35 2023eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 946/.02
Summary How the memory of Muslim Iberia shapes art and politics from New York and Cordoba to Cairo and the West Bank.During the Middle Ages, the Iberian Peninsula was home not to Spain and Portugal but rather to al-Andalus. Ruled by a succession of Islamic dynasties, al-Andalus came to be a shorthand for a legendary place where people from the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe; Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived together in peace. That reputation is not entirely deserved, yet, as On Earth or in Poems shows, it has had an enduring hold on the imagination, especially for Arab and Muslim artists and thinkers in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.From the vast and complex story behind the name al-Andalus, Syrians and North Africans draw their own connections to history's ruling dynasties. Palestinians can imagine themselves as "Moriscos," descended from Spanish Muslims forced to hide their identities. A Palestinian flamenco musician in Chicago, no less than a Saudi women's rights activist, can take inspiration from al-Andalus. These diverse relationships to the same past may be imagined, but the present-day communities and future visions those relationships foster are real.Where do these notions of al-Andalus come from? How do they translate into aspiration and action? Eric Calderwood traces the role of al-Andalus in music and in debates about Arab and Berber identities, Arab and Muslim feminisms, the politics of Palestine and Israel, and immigration and multiculturalism in Europe. The Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish once asked, "Was al-Andalus / Here or there? On earth ... or in poems?" The artists and activists showcased in this book answer: it was there, it is here, and it will be.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
1 The Arab al-Andalus
2 The Berber al-Andalus
3 The Feminist al-Andalus
4 The Palestinian al-Andalus
5 The Harmonious al-Andalus
Epilogue: Cordoba / Illinois
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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