Our Place in al-Andalus: Kabbalah,Philosophy, Literature in Arab Jewish Letters(Cultural Memory in the Present)
“This is an original and extraordinarily refined work on a question that lies somewhere in the space between history and philosophy. . . . The author handles with equal ease the range of sources, both modern and medieval. His extremely elegant organization of the material reflects, at a very advanced level, a sense of style commensurate with the sophistication of his thinking.”—Maria Rosa Menocal, Yale University
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This book offers a reading of Andalusi, Jewish, and Arabic texts that represent the 12th and 13th centuries as the end of el-Andalus (Islamic Spain). Booknews Although at first glance Maimonides' , the narratives of Ibn al-Astarkuwi, and the (the major text of the Jewish Kabbalah) seem to have little in common, they all emerged from the common cultural sphere of the Islamic Spain and were written as that sphere was coming to an end. Anidjar (Hebrew literature, Columbia U.) argues that they all placed themselves within the context of that loss, but that the way in which they were written was designed to deny the borders of the lost sphere. He offers three readings of the texts, examining their rhetoric and representations of "the end." Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Declinations of Context in Arab Jewish Letters11Maimonides, Dalala, Midrash102"Our Place in al-Andalus, [actual symbol not reproducible][actual symbol not reproducible][actual symbol not reproducible]"573The Silent Voice of the Friend: Andalusi Topographies of Scholem's Conversations (Mourning Mysticism)1024Reading, Out of Context: Zohar and/as Maqama166Pt. 1Zohar171Ibn al-Astarkuwi's Maqama "On Poetry and Prose"219Pt. 2Parting Words229Notes249Bibliography307
\ BooknewsAlthough at first glance Maimonides' , the narratives of Ibn al-Astarkuwi, and the (the major text of the Jewish Kabbalah) seem to have little in common, they all emerged from the common cultural sphere of the Islamic Spain and were written as that sphere was coming to an end. Anidjar (Hebrew literature, Columbia U.) argues that they all placed themselves within the context of that loss, but that the way in which they were written was designed to deny the borders of the lost sphere. He offers three readings of the texts, examining their rhetoric and representations of "the end." Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
