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Uva-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) [Review of: M.R. Menocal, R.P. Scheindlin (2000) The literature of Al-Andalus. - (The Cambridge history of Arabic literature)] Schippers, A. DOI 10.2143/BIOR.60.1.2015614 Publication date 2003 Document Version Final published version Published in Bibliotheca Orientalis Link to publication Citation for published version (APA): Schippers, A. (2003). [Review of: M.R. Menocal, R.P. Scheindlin (2000) The literature of Al- Andalus. - (The Cambridge history of Arabic literature)]. Bibliotheca Orientalis, 60(1-2), 214- 216. https://doi.org/10.2143/BIOR.60.1.2015614 General rights It is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). 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UvA-DARE is a service provided by the library of the University of Amsterdam (https://dare.uva.nl) Download date:02 Oct 2021 213 BOEKBESPREKINGEN — ARABICA 214 as follows: 'He who loves, remains chaste, knows how to those of Llull s pe it will be a further incentive keep silent about his love, and dies.' for both Arabists an- anists to read this famous treatise Galmes de Fuentes quotes a sixteenth-century Spanish son­ and to further appr the importance of this Catalan net 'No me mueve, mi Dios, para quererte', which expresses scholar. the idea that man longs for God not because of the threat of Hell or the. promises of Heaven, but because of his love for Amsterdam, No Arie SCHIPPERS God. This principle had more or less been developed by Ramon Llull and the Arabic poet Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240). The latter sai«| in a poem: 'The deliciousness of Heaven is * equal to the venations of your Hell: the love which you have in me does not\diminish with the punishment nor increases MENOCAL, Maria Rosa, Raymond P. SCHEINDLIN, and with the reward,\all that you prefer in this only I shall Michael SELLS (eds.) — The literature of Al-Andalus, love, this only.' (The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature) Cam­ f loving, lover and The equation beWeen love, the action bridge (etc.): Cambridge University Press, 2000 (IX, is to be found with beloved coming together in the belovei 507 pp.: ill.; 24 cm) ISBN 0-521-47159-1. the Arabic poet Ibn 'jArabi as well as in amon Llull's work: 'amor, amar, amic, e Vmat se convene tan fortment en I'A- This volume is not a normal volume in The Cambridge mat, que una actuality son en essencJa' ('they are coming History of Arabic Literature series - and not only because all together so narrowly inVhe Beloved, mat they are an actual­ the contributors work at an American or Israeli university, as ity in essence'). Also the^love for not/being is a well-known though there were no specialists in this field in Europe or the theme in mystical love, present in both Ibn 'Arabi and Ramon Arab world. This was, however, probably not done on pur­ Llull. Other themes of mystical lov^ treated in this chapter pose and was not a kind of agressive American Academic are amorous melancholy, prayer Without complaint, being politics. clothed in shabby clothes, syrnbolic intention of vulgar real­ This volume introduces a new concept of literary history, ity, the beloved represented in me/visible things, the seas of a regional rather than a linguistic one: it deals not only with love, the encounter with lions,Yhe folly of love, and the the Arabic literature of al-Andalus, but also with the Hebrew, infused science and knowledge m the beloved. The chapter Latin and Romance literatures of al-Andalus. As an Arabist, closes with some of the Christian rtjotives in the treatise. a Hebraist, a Romanist and a specialist on al-Andalus, I The first sections of Chapter 3 ('Courtly Love in the Ara­ appreciate this approach very much. I consider it also one of bic world and in the treatise Lliare d amic e amat') deal with my tasks to study the medieval literatures of Spain and other courtesy or courtly love in the Arabic\world in various peri­ southern European regions in an integrated manner. ods, ranging from pre-Islamifc time^ through the HijazT Moreover, this volume deals not only with literature, but period, eighth-century Iraq and ninth-eentury Baghdad, to also with architecture, language, music and philosophy; and courtly love in al-Andalus (pp. 95-102).\There then follows not only with individual literates, but also with philosophers, a comparison between the amorous poetic code of Arabic mystics and scientific translators. On top of that, it encom­ 'courtly love' and Llullian rnfystics, with chapters on obedi­ passes not only al-Andalus, but also Sicily; and not only indi­ ence and amorous service, djblicious suffeidng, love without vidual literates, but also such minority groups as Mozarabs, recompense, death of love, sjfecret of love, communication by Arabized Jews, Sephardim and Moriscos (see Part V). The signs, falling in love as a result of hearing, the themes of two last-mentioned groups indicate that not only is al- alhada (love song at daybreak), evocation ol, spring, the dis­ Andalus during the period 711-1492 dealt with, but that the turbing chorus of the lovei's, the noisy maniVestation of the period after 1492 is not left unmentioned. All this indicates pangs of love, and the wine theme (pp. 103-IpO). a new concept compared with the other volumes of The Cam­ Chapter 6 deals with a whole range of linguistic peculiar­ bridge History of Arabic Literature. However, a chronologi­ ities of this Catalan treatise, for instance, the impersonal use cal historical overview of the literature of al-Andalus — of the second-person singular (pp. 151-159). In its second which one would expect to find in a traditional history of lit­ part, the style of the treatise is discussed: repetition, rhyth­ erature — is not provided. mic parallelism, lexical creations, and strange words such as The book starts with an introductory chapter ("Visions of 'bonificativament', 'honificablenfent', 'sobrecogitament' and al-Andalus') written by Maria Rosa Menocal; this is followed 'sobredobladament' (p^l60-L82). by a piece on the Umayyad palace ('Madinat al-Zahra") by Chapter 7 is dedicateoHp tl^ conclusions, which are built D.F. Ruggles. After almost each chapter, we find this kind of up around the following sulsufects: the context of the treatise digression on architectural objects. This perhaps reflects the Llibre d'amic e amat, divinsRwe and courtly love in the Lli- holistic approach employed by the editors. Similarly, Part I bre, style, anti-Arabic bia^s, trasybiblical 'Song of Songs', — which is on cultural subjects (Chapters 2-6 about the lan­ and the poetry by the Duej^ento Itanwi Franciscan poet Jaco- guage situation of al-Andalus, music, spaces and architecture pone da Todi (d. ca. 1306). The conclusions are rounded off and love) — ends with 'The Great Mosque of Cordoba' by by saying that Ramon L/iull lived on the island of Majorca D.F. Ruggles (p. 159). which had been deeply jnfluenced by Muslim ideas, and was Part II focuses on what should be the main subject of the — because of its location in the Mediterranean — in constant book, and deals with such literary genres as the muwashshah contact with the various cultural centres. This leads to cir­ in an article by Tova Rosen (Chapter 7), the maqama in a cumstantial proof of the possible Arabic influence on Ramon piece by the late, greatly missed Israeli scholar Rina Drory Llull's ideas about rnystical and courtly love. (Chapter 8), and the qasida in an article by Beatrice Gruendler We should be graceful to Alvaro Galmes de Fuentes for (Chapter 9), a specialist on the Arabic panegyric (madih). comparing the themeij from Arabic and other literature with Especially in Chapters 8 and 9 the Arabic Andalusian literary 215 BIBLIOTHECA ORIENT ALIS LX N° 1-2, januari-april 2003 216 history is matched with that of the Hebrew counterpart, which parts (not taking into account V, which is a translation) makes sense because the 'new' Hebrew literature which orig­ include many other subjects. The individuals mentioned in inated in al-Andalus followed the Arabic literary themes from Part III should have included important poets such as Ibn nearby. The two Israeli women give a balanced account of Khafaja — the most important Arabic Andalusian poet — muwashshah and maqama, and Beatrice Gruendler does a and Ibn 'Ammar, al-Mu'tamid, Ibn Sara and Ibn Sahl. Among good job in mentioning also Hebrew poetry in her piece on the Hebrew poets one would have expected to find Samuel the qasida, which after a general introduction is especially ori­ ha-Nagid, Solomon ibn Gabirol or even Todros Abu'l-'Afiya. entated towards Ibn Darraj al-Qastalli's classical qasida, Ibn When listing philosophers one would have expected Ibn Shuhayd's ambivalent qasida and Ibn al-Zaqqaq's nature Rushd. When dealing with Romance literatures, it would qasida. The last chapter is followed by an excursus on archi­ have been equally important to mention Occitan literature, tecture and explains how these courtly spaces (e.g.
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