Love Songs from Al-Andalus

History, Structure and Meaning of the Kharja
Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-90-04-10694-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 386 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 853 g

Reihe: Medieval Iberian Peninsula

Love Songs from al-Andalus presents an updated survey of the debates concerning Andalusian strophic poetry and their Kharjas. Attention is focused on the texts themselves and their literary implications as testimonies of the multicultural and multilingual society of al-Andalus. Since languages and alphabets of the three major religions have been used, these texts are studies historically, prosodically, thematically and stylistically and are related to the three literary traditions.
One of the novelties of this study is the fact that it has been based upon the most updated edition and interpretations of the texts introducing emendations in over a third of its contents and making obsolete most of the hundreds of previous articles and books on the topic. Another novelty is the fact that stylistic features have been studied according to the Arabic model, casting new light on them. The survey of thematic relationships and the analysis of code-switching phenomena add weight to the conclusions of this research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zwartjes, Otto

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien

Über Autor(innen)

Otto Zwartjes, Ph.D. (1995), University of Nijmegen, is presently teaching in the Spanish Department and works as a researcher in the Department of Middle East Studies of the University of Nijmegen. He has published extensively on the Kharjas and is currently working on a post-doctoral project on Spanish linguistic historiography and linguistic thought.