Ibn Hamdis the Sicilian

Ibn Hamdis the Sicilian

Eulogist for a Falling Homeland

Granara, William

Oneworld Publications

07/2021

176

Dura

Inglês

9781786078469

15 a 20 dias

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1 BORN UNDER A BAD SIGN



The Kalbids of Sicily



Muslim Sicily Unraveling



Born in Syracuse, Becoming a Poet



Education in an Early Jihadi Frontier



The Rise of an Indigenous Muslim-Sicilian Culture



Poetry in Muslim Sicily, From Philology to Art and Politics



Crafting a Poetics of 'Homeland'







2 DILEMMA: TO REMAIN OR DEPART



Sojourn in Sfax: Maintaining the Ifriqiya-Sicily Connection



Asad ibn al-Furat: Muslim Sicily's Founding Father



Ibn Hawqal's Sicilian Chapter



In the Shadow of the Norman Conquest







3 THE FIRST DESERT CROSSING



Ifriqiya: A Divided and Turbulent Motherland



The Zirid Dynasty of Ifriqiya



The 'Arabs' of Eleventh-Century Ifriqiya



On the Desert Highway: Traveling with Arab Companions







4 LA DOLCE VITA IN SEVILLE



The 'Abbadid Kingdom of Seville



Muslim Spain and Muslim Sicily: A Comparative View



Elegy to a Father



Serving the Patron: The Political Panegyric



Court Poet as Court Functionary



The Looming Threat of the Christian Reconquest



Poetic Sparring: Poet as Client, Poet as Competitor







5 FROM THE DARK CLOUDS OF AL-ZALLAQA TO A SECOND EXILE



Confrontation at Badajoz: Enter the Almoravids



The Battle of al-Zallaqa



The Fall of the 'Abbadids of Seville







6 1091: ANNUS HORRIBILIS AND THE SECOND DESERT CROSSING



Intermission at Qal'at Bani Hammad



Return to Mahdia



Connecting to the Zirids: Praise and Blame for Tamim



Vigilant Eye on the Norman Conquest



Ode to a Falling Homeland



Back to the Family in Sfax: Mourning the Loss of an Aunt and a Wife







7 THE POETICS OF JIHAD: AT THE ZIRID COURT IN MAHDIA



At the Court of Yahya ibn Tamim



Revolt and Murder at the Zirid Palace



Breaking Ranks in Gabes



From Seville to Nicotera and Mahdia: The Almoravids Move East



Victory at al-Dimas



The Almohads on the Horizon







8 TIME OF REFLECTION: ASCETIC VERSES AND ARABS AT THE NORMAN COURT



Retreat into Devotional Verse



Arabs and Muslim Culture at the Norman Court in Palermo







9 TWILIGHT: BLINDNESS, LOSS, AND DEFEAT



Losing Sight



Sicily Forever on the Mind



Elegy to a Nephew and Family History



Mourning a Daughter, Mourning a Homeland



Death and Burial



Ibn Hamdis's Legacy in History and Literature
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Islamic Sicily; Muslim Spain; Abbadid Seville; Muslims in Seville; Islamic Seville; Muslim Sicily; Medieval Muslims; Muslims in Spain; Muslims in Italy; Muslims in Sicily; Islamic Spain; Kingdoms of Faith; makers of the muslim world