Islam in Spanish Literature: From the Middle Ages to the Present

by Luce López-Baralt and   - 

Islam in Spanish Literature is a sweeping reinterpretation of Spanish literature, taking as its given the enormous debt to Arab culture that Spain incurred through the eight centuries of Islamic presence on the Iberian Peninsula. This volume takes up the thread of the work of the Arabist Miguel As?n Palacios, the first to comment extensively upon the marked Islamic features in many Spanish classics. After an initial survey of the presence of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004094601
• ISBN13: 9789004094604
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 9.7"