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Lilly, The myths revolving around islamic spain are collectively known as the myth of Andalusia. They have their origins not in any historical fact, but in the writings of romantic 19th century authors. The entire mytical peaceful islamic spain springs from two very imaginative works by convincing writers. "Tales of the Alhambra" by Washington Irving and "Le Dernier des Abencerages" by Chateaubriand. Chateaubriand thought nothing of making things up even about his own life -- some of his entirely fictional trips are set down as fact in "Memoires d'Outre-Tombe."One of the more well known works of this genra was by Maria Rosa Menocal, entitled "Ornament of the World". It is supposedly all about Cordoba, where "three faiths" worked harmoniously together providing a lesson and hope for our. The first thing you should know about this impressionistic fantasy is that it completely ignores, and does not even mention in its bibliography, any of the major scholarly works on Muslim Spain Primarily those of Evariste Levi-Provencal, of Dufourcq, of Bousquet, but many others are ignored also. It casts a blind eye on a good deal else also including Maimonides (one of the major jewish theologians) own words: "the Arabs have persecuted us severely, and passed baneful and discriminatory legislation against us...Never did a nation molest, degrade, debase, and hate us as much as they."
Lilly, The myths revolving around islamic spain are collectively known as the myth of Andalusia. They have their origins not in any historical fact, but in the writings of romantic 19th century authors. The entire mytical peaceful islamic spain springs from two very imaginative works by convincing writers. "Tales of the Alhambra" by Washington Irving and "Le Dernier des Abencerages" by Chateaubriand. Chateaubriand thought nothing of making things up even about his own life -- some of his entirely fictional trips are set down as fact in "Memoires d'Outre-Tombe."
One of the more well known works of this genra was by Maria Rosa Menocal, entitled "Ornament of the World". It is supposedly all about Cordoba, where "three faiths" worked harmoniously together providing a lesson and hope for our. The first thing you should know about this impressionistic fantasy is that it completely ignores, and does not even mention in its bibliography, any of the major scholarly works on Muslim Spain Primarily those of Evariste Levi-Provencal, of Dufourcq, of Bousquet, but many others are ignored also. It casts a blind eye on a good deal else also including Maimonides (one of the major jewish theologians) own words: "the Arabs have persecuted us severely, and passed baneful and discriminatory legislation against us...Never did a nation molest, degrade, debase, and hate us as much as they."
