The Lost Garden of Al-Andalus
Islamic Spain and the Poetic Inversion of Colonialism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8969245 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yaseen Noorani (0000-0002-6178-8618, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 237-254 |
| Publication date | 1999-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020743800054039 |
| OpenAlex | W2017869923 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 5 |
In 1933, the Urdu and Persian poet Muhammad Iqbal (1873–1938) became the first Muslim to worship in the mosque of Cordoba since its conversion into a cathedral after the Moors were expelled from Spain in 1492. Iqbal had gone to London as a delegate to the third roundtable conference on the political future of India. On his return, he was invited to lecture in Madrid by the Orientalist Asin Palacios, and took the opportunity to visit the monument. Dramatizing the symbolic significance of his visit to the mosque, Iqbal swooned upon entering and uttered verses that presumably came to be included in his celebrated Urdu poem “Masjid-i Qurtubah”. Some years before, in 1919, the Egyptian Arabic poet Ahmad Shawqi (1868–1932) ended his five-year exile in Spain with a similar visit to the Andalusian monuments, albeit with less dramatic fanfare. Nevertheless, Shawqi as well was accompanied by his muse. In the introduction to his own famous poem about Islamic Spain, the “Siniyyah”, Shawqi recounts how the embryonic verses of this poem came to him as he toured the mosque and the Alhambra of Granada
Ancient history · Arabic · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Islam · Literature · Mamluk · Orientalism · Persian · Poetry · Politics · Theology · Urdu · Worship · Classics · Education and Islamic Studies · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy
Iqbal Before the Mosque of Cordoba
Emotions and Temporalities
On Manic Poems
Indo-Iranian Linguistic, Literary, and Religious Entanglements
Provincializing Mecca? (1924–1969)
The Much-Maligned Panegyric
There and Back Again
Nostalgia for al-Andalus in early modern MoroccanVoyages en Espagne
New episodes in Moroccan nationalism under colonial role
Another Andalusia
La convivencia,la mezquitaand al-Andalus
| Unique citing works | 11 |
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| Citations per year | 0,58 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2023 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |