'Our Place in Al-Andalus': Kabbalah, Philosophy, Literature in Arab Jewish Letters

by Gil Anidjar

Book Overview

The year 1492 is only the last in a series of "ends" that inform the representation of medieval Spain in modern Jewish historical and literary discourses. These ends simultaneously mirror the traumas of history and shed light on the discursive process by which hermetic boundaries are set between periods, communities, and texts. This book addresses the representation of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries as the end of al-Andalus (Islamic Spain)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804741212
• ISBN13: 9780804741217
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 8.7"