14280x Seminar

WiSe 19/20: Al-Andalus: The Arabs and their culture on the Iberian Peninsula

Isabel Toral

Additional information / Pre-requisites

in CM nur für EinS@FU-Studierende buchbar

Comments

By focusing the Arabic cultural epoch on the Iberian Peninsula, this seminar offers an introduction to basic knowledge, methods and techniques of scientific work in Arabic Studies. Topics will include: the coexistence of cultures and languages; Arabic literature, poetry, philosophy and science in al-Andalus; the translation School of Toledo; the "Reconquista"; Moorish architecture; Moriscos; the myth al-Andalus. close

Suggested reading

Bossong, Georg. Das Maurische Spanien: Geschichte Und Kultur / Georg Bossong. Orig.-Ausg. ed. München: Beck, 2007

Subjects A - Z