A sea of languages : rethinking the Arabic role in medieval literary history / edited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Karla Mallette.

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1. Introduction : the persistence of philology : language and connectivity in the Mediterranean / Suzanne Conklin Akbari -- 2. Beyond philology : cross-cultural engagement in literary history and beyond / Sharon Kinoshita -- 3. Linguistic difference, the philology of romance, and the romance of philology / Simon Gaunt -- 4. Forging new paradigms : towards a history of Islamo-Christian civilization / John Tolan -- 5. Reflections on Muslim Hebraism : Codex Vindobonensis Palatinus and al-Biqaʻi / Walid A. Saleh -- 6. "Mixing the east with the west" : cosmopolitan philology in Richard Burton's Translations from Camões / Paulo Lemos Horta -- 7. Reading backward : the 1001 Nights and philological practice / Karla Mallette -- 8. Andalusi "exceptionalism" / Ross Brann -- 9. The Convivencia Wars : decoding historiography's polemic with philology / Ryan Szpiech -- 10. "In one of my body's gardens" : hearts in transformation in late Medieval Iberian passion devotions / Cynthia Robinson -- 11. Arab musical influence on medieval Europe : a reassessment / Dwight Reynolds -- 12. Sicilian poets in Seville : literary affinities across political boundaries / William Granara -- 13. Vidal Benvenist's Efer ve-Dinah between Hebrew and romance / David Wacks -- 14. The shadow of Islam in Cervantes's "El Licenciado Vidriera" / Leyla Rouhi -- 15. "The finest flowering" : poetry, history, and medieval Spain in the twenty-first century / María Rosa Menocal -- 16. Boustrophedon : toward a literary theory of the Mediterranean / Karla Mallette.

"Medieval European literature was once thought to have been isolationist in its nature, but recent scholarship has revealed the ways in which Spanish and Italian authors--including Cervantes and Marco Polo--were influenced by Arabic poetry, music, and philosophy. A Sea of Languages brings together some of the most influential scholars working in Muslim-Christian-Jewish cultural communications today to discuss the convergence of the literary, social, and economic histories of the medieval Mediterranean. This volume takes as a starting point María Rosa Menocal's groundbreaking work The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History, a major catalyst in the reconsideration of prevailing assumptions regarding the insularity of medieval European literature. Reframing ongoing debates within literary studies in dynamic new ways, A Sea of Languages will become a critical resource and reference point for a new generation of scholars and students on the intersection of Arabic and European literature."-- From publisher's website.

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