Granada

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Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815607656
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (76 download)

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Book Synopsis Granada by : Radwa Ashour

Download or read book Granada written by Radwa Ashour and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radwa Ashour skillfully weaves a history of Granadan rule and an Arabic world into a novel that evokes cultural loss and the disappearance of a vanquished population. The novel follows the family of Abu Jaafar the bookbinder—his wife, widowed daughter-in-law, her two children, and his two apprentices—as they witness Christopher Columbus and his entourage in a triumphant parade featuring exotic plants, animals, human captives from the New World. Embedded in the narrative is the preparation for the marriage of Saad, one of the apprentices, and Saleema, Abu Jaafar's granddaughter—which is elegantly revealed in a number of parallel scenes. As the new rulers of Granada confiscate books and officials burn the collected volumes, Abu Jaafur quietly moves his rich library out of town. Persecuted Muslims fight to form an independent government, but increasing economic and cultural pressures on the Arabs of Spain and Christian rulers culminate in forcing Christian conversions and Muslim uprisings. A tale that is both vigorous and heartbreaking, this novel will appeal to general readers of Spanish and Arabic literature as well as anyone interested in Christian-Muslim relations.

City of Illusions

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197644066
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Book Synopsis City of Illusions by : Helen Rodgers

Download or read book City of Illusions written by Helen Rodgers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Granada is a deceptive city, concealing a layered past and a complex character. The last Muslim capital in Western Europe, over the centuries it has captured hearts and imaginations, inspiring countless myths and legends. Yet its history reveals even more fascinating tales: secrets and follies, victory and failure, poetry and art. City of Illusions brings together Granada's many stories--the archaeological forger, the renegade French general, the garrotted liberal heroine, the Jewish poet who served two Muslim rulers. This colourful cast of characters takes us from the founding eleventh-century dynasty and the building of the Alhambra, through the Reconquista, French occupation and Spanish Civil War, right up to the present day. Granada's history has long been fought over, rewritten, idealised or buried. This rich, elegant book sets the record straight on a beautiful, elusive city, with all its quirks, mysteries, intrigues and triumphs.

The Lead Books of Granada

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137358858
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Book Synopsis The Lead Books of Granada by : E. Drayson

Download or read book The Lead Books of Granada written by E. Drayson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as early Christian texts as important as the Dead Sea Scrolls, yet condemned by the Vatican as Islamic heresies, the Lead books of Granada, written on discs of lead and unearthed on a Granadan hillside, weave a mysterious tale of duplicity and daring set in the religious crucible of sixteenth-century Spain. This book evaluates the cultural status and importance of these polyvalent, ambiguous artefacts which embody many of the dualities and paradoxes inherent in the racial and religious dilemmas of Early Modern Spain. Using the words of key individuals, and set against the background of conflict between Spanish Christians and Moriscos in the late fifteen-hundreds, The Lead Books of Granada tells a story of resilient resistance and creative ingenuity in the face of impossibly powerful negative forces, a resistance embodied by a small group of courageous, idealistic men who lived a double life in Granada just before the expulsion of the Moriscos.

From Muslim to Christian Granada

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Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801885235
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (852 download)

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Book Synopsis From Muslim to Christian Granada by : A. Katie Harris

Download or read book From Muslim to Christian Granada written by A. Katie Harris and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-03-19 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue. Old Bones for a New City -- 1 Granada in the Sixteenth Century -- 2 Controversy and Propaganda -- 3 Forging History: Granadino Historiography and the Sacromonte -- 4 Civic Ritual and Civic Identity -- 5 The Plomos and the Sacromonte in Granadino Piety -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Granada

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Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 161902506X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis Granada by : Steven Nightingale

Download or read book Granada written by Steven Nightingale and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andalusia: ancient homeland of the mysterious Iberians, birthplace of Roman emperors, seedbed of modern Anarchism, and unmarked gravesite of Spain's greatest lyric poet. Perhaps most importantly, Andalusia is home to the city of Granada, where a hybrid culture composed of Islamic, Jewish, and Christian traditions gave rise to an intellectual vanguard whose achievements can be compared only with those of classical Athens, Ming China, or Renaissance Italy. Granada resident Steven Nightingale excavates the rich past of his adopted city and its surrounding countryside, finding there a lavish story of utopian ecstasy, political intrigue, and finally anguish. Part of that region in southern Spain named by its Islamic rulers "Al–Andalus," medieval Granada witnessed a flourishing of poetry in several languages, the first modern translations of Greek philosophy, the birth of algebra, and the construction of architectural masterpieces such as the Alhambra and the Generalife. Yet with Ferdinand and Isabella's sack of Granada in 1492, regarded as the culmination of the Reconquista, which sought to reclaim Spain for the Vatican, a Catholic mythology of Spain began to erode Granada's centuries–old reputation as an artistically vital haven for multiple ethnic and religious groups. Linking the disastrous afterlife of the Reconquista to the Catholic nationalism of the Franco regime—whose execution of Granadan poet Federico Garcia Lorca symbolizes the suppression of Andalusia's cultural heritage—Nightingale demonstrates the extent to which this Catholic triumphalism also obscured the source of much cultural wealth bequeathed by Al–Andalus to Christian Europe. Nightingale's own account of the region's medieval zenith recovers the intellectual pageantry and aesthetic splendor of this astounding period in Western history and the marvelous city that was its cultural center.

Creating Christian Granada

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801468760
Total Pages : 262 pages
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Book Synopsis Creating Christian Granada by : David Coleman

Download or read book Creating Christian Granada written by David Coleman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating Christian Granada provides a richly detailed examination of a critical and transitional episode in Spain's march to global empire. The city of Granada-Islam's final bastion on the Iberian peninsula-surrendered to the control of Spain's "Catholic Monarchs" Isabella and Ferdinand on January 2, 1492. Over the following century, Spanish state and Church officials, along with tens of thousands of Christian immigrant settlers, transformed the formerly Muslim city into a Christian one. With constant attention to situating the Granada case in the broader comparative contexts of the medieval reconquista tradition on the one hand and sixteenth-century Spanish imperialism in the Americas on the other, Coleman carefully charts the changes in the conquered city's social, political, religious, and physical landscapes. In the process, he sheds light on the local factors contributing to the emergence of tensions between the conquerors and Granada's formerly Muslim, "native" morisco community in the decades leading up to the crown-mandated expulsion of most of the city's moriscos in 1569-1570. Despite the failure to assimilate the moriscos, Granada's status as a frontier Christian community under construction fostered among much of the immigrant community innovative religious reform ideas and programs that shaped in direct ways a variety of church-wide reform movements in the era of the ecumenical Council of Trent (1545-1563). Coleman concludes that the process by which reforms of largely Granadan origin contributed significantly to transformations in the Church as a whole forces a reconsideration of traditional "top-down" conceptions of sixteenth-century Catholic reform.

The Nasrid Kingdom of Granada between East and West

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004443592
Total Pages : 693 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Nasrid Kingdom of Granada between East and West written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nasrid Kingdom of Granada (1232-1492) was the last Islamic state in al-Andalus. It has long been considered a historical afterthought, even an anomaly, but this impression must be rectified: here we place the kingdom in a new context, within the processes of change that were taking place across all Western Islamic societies in the late Middle Ages. Despite being the last Islamic entity in the Iberian Peninsula, Granada was neither isolated nor exclusively associated with the nearest Islamic lands. The special relationship between Nasrid territory and the surrounding Christian states accelerated historical processes of change. This volume edited by Adela Fábregas examines the Nasrid kingdom through its politics, society, economics, and culture. Contributors: Daniel Baloup, Bárbara Boloix-Gallardo, María Elena Díez Jorge, Adela Fábregas, Ángel Galán Sánchez, Alberto García Porras, Expiración García Sánchez, Raúl González Arévalo, Pierre Guichard, Antonio Malpica Cuello, Christine Mazzoli-Guintard, Rafael G. Peinado, Antonio Peláez Rovira, José Miguel Puerta Vílchez, María Dolores Rodríguez-Gómez, Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza, Roser Salicrú i Lluch, Bilal Sarr, Francisco Vidal-Castro, Gerard Wiegers, Amalia Zomeño.

OECD Urban Studies The Circular Economy in Granada, Spain

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Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264510346
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (645 download)

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Download or read book OECD Urban Studies The Circular Economy in Granada, Spain written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the COVID-19 crisis has put many economic activities on hold, notably tourism, a pillar of Granada’s economy, it has also created a momentum towards more sustainable production and consumption patterns, in line with carbon neutrality goals.

Granada

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
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Book Synopsis Granada by : Leonard Williams

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Granada Hills

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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439618305
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Book Synopsis Granada Hills by : Jim Hier

Download or read book Granada Hills written by Jim Hier and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern history of Granada Hills began in 1913 with the completion of the Los Angeles aqueduct and the arrival of abundant freshwater to the former land of Mission San Fernando. Citrus orchards flourished on the Sunshine Ranch, acreage originally cultivated by former senator George K. Porter. In 1926, the community of Granada was formed as a rabbit-raising colony, promising residents country living and economic prosperity. Granada added “Hills” to its name in 1942 to avoid confusion with a similarly named Northern California town, and thanks to the postwar baby boom, the population grew by 1,000 percent between 1950 and 1960. The community soon earned a reputation as “The San Fernando Valley’s Most Neighborly Town” as residents came together to celebrate the hometown team’s 1963 Little League World Series victory and the formation of the nation’s first all-girl American Youth Soccer Organization league, and as neighbor helped neighbor after the devastating 1971 and 1994 earthquakes.

A Companion to Islamic Granada

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004425810
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis A Companion to Islamic Granada by : Bárbara Boloix-Gallardo

Download or read book A Companion to Islamic Granada written by Bárbara Boloix-Gallardo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Islamic Granada gathers, for the first time in English, a number of essays exploring aspects of the Islamic history of this city from the 8th through the 15th centuries from an interdisciplinary perspective. This collective volume examines the political development of Medieval Gharnāṭa under the rule of different dynasties, drawing on both historiographical and archaeological sources. It also analyses the complexity of its religious and multicultural society, as well as its economic, scientific, and intellectual life. The volume also transcends the year 1492, analysing the development of both the mudejar and the morisco populations and their contribution to Grenadian culture and architecture up to the 17th century. Contributors are: Bárbara Boloix-Gallardo, María Jesús Viguera-Molíns, Alberto García-Porras, Antonio Malpica–Cuello, Bilal Sarr-Marroco, Allen Fromherz, Bernard Vincent, Maribel Fierro–Bello, Ma Luisa Ávila–Navarro, Juan Pedro Monferrer–Sala, José Martínez–Delgado, Luis Bernabé–Pons, Adela Fábregas–García, Josef Ženka, Amalia Zomeño–Rodríguez, Delfina Serrano–Ruano, Julio Samsó–Moya, Celia del Moral-Molina, José Miguel Puerta–Vílchez, Antonio Orihuela–Uzal, Ieva Rėklaitytė, and Rafael López–Guzmán.

A Handbook for Travellers in Spain: Andalucia, Ronda and Granada, Murcia, Valencia, and Catalonia; the portions best suited for the invalid

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis A Handbook for Travellers in Spain: Andalucia, Ronda and Granada, Murcia, Valencia, and Catalonia; the portions best suited for the invalid by : John Murray (Firm)

Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers in Spain: Andalucia, Ronda and Granada, Murcia, Valencia, and Catalonia; the portions best suited for the invalid written by John Murray (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In Re Granada Apartments, Inc

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
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Granada - City trip in Andalusia

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Publisher : Rebiere
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
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Book Synopsis Granada - City trip in Andalusia by : Cristina Rebiere

Download or read book Granada - City trip in Andalusia written by Cristina Rebiere and published by Rebiere. This book was released on with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We welcome you in your new Voyage Experience guide: "Granada - City trip in Andalusia". If you are planning to spend a weekend or a short stay of a few days in Granada, then this guide will help you to discover this beautiful Andalusian city, located at the foot of the mountains of the Sierra Nevada as well as the small town of Santa Fe, located 11 km further. You will also find beautiful surprises in Alhama de Granada, as well as in the natural trails of a superb dizzying hike that we will propose to you just a few kilometers from the big city. You will certainly appreciate the harmonious mix of cultures that, over the centuries, have made Granada a true multifaceted city and region. Each of its neighborhoods has its own personality and identity, including the Alcaicería, the cathedral and its stunning palatial complex, the Alhambra, which is a true city all by itself. We will share with you our discoveries: the gorgeous city of Granada, but also the little Santa Fe - witness of the last offensive of the Catholic Kings against the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada, Alhama de Granada and a breathtaking hike in the region. If you want to discover at the same time the superb and surprising region of Guadix which equals in beauty the famous Cappadocia in Turkey and its troglodyte life, then do not hesitate to buy the guide dedicated to it. We spent more than two months touring this beautiful Andalusian region, amazed by its beauties. So why not you?

Fodor's Seville, Granada & Andalusia

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Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
ISBN 13 : 1400018684
Total Pages : 258 pages
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Download or read book Fodor's Seville, Granada & Andalusia written by Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. and published by Fodors Travel Publications. This book was released on 2007-12-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed and timely information on accommodations, restaurants, and local attractions highlight these updated travel guides, which feature all-new covers, a two-color interior design, symbols to indicate budget options, must-see ratings, multi-day itineraries, Smart Travel Tips, helpful bulleted maps, tips on transportation, guidelines for shopping excursions, and other valuable features. Original.

Judah Halevi and His Circle of Hebrew Poets in Granada

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047408373
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Book Synopsis Judah Halevi and His Circle of Hebrew Poets in Granada by : Ann Brener

Download or read book Judah Halevi and His Circle of Hebrew Poets in Granada written by Ann Brener and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the greatest Hebrew poet since biblical times, Judah Halevi (ca. 1075-1141) is best-known for his “Songs of Zion,” written late in life. But when Halevi first appeared on the stage of history, he was just a young man, incredibly talented - and completely unknown. This study focuses on Halevi’s earliest period of creativity within a circle of Hebrew poets centering on the Muslim city-kingdom of Granada. Part One examines the lure of Muslim Spain for an up-and-coming young poet and the poems paving his way thither; Part Two, the social setting in which this circle of poets flourished and the dynamics behind many of its poems. A number of poems are brought in translation, many for the first time.

Tales of a traveller ; A chronicle of the conquest of Granada ; The Alhambra

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
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Book Synopsis Tales of a traveller ; A chronicle of the conquest of Granada ; The Alhambra by : Washington Irving

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