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A guide to Arabic, Hebrew, Romance, and Berber language worlds, plus poetry, adab, court culture, translation, and place-name memory.
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- Language and Literature Reading List1
- Arabic in al-Andalus: Prestige, Dialect, Everyday Use2
- Multilingual Iberia: Arabic, Hebrew, and Romance in Practice3
- Adab and Court Culture: Literature as Social Technology4
- Andalusian Poetry: Forms, Themes, Famous Voices5
- Words and Place Names: How Arabic Entered Spanish and Portuguese6
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Language and Literature
A guided path through Arabic, Hebrew, Romance, Berber language worlds, poetry, adab, court culture, and the source problems behind literary memory.
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Multilingual Iberia: Arabic, Hebrew, and Romance in Practice
A guide to how Arabic, Hebrew, Romance, Latin, and Berber languages operated across religion, rule, scholarship, commerce, and memory in medieval Iberia.
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Words and Place Names: How Arabic Entered Spanish and Portuguese
A guide to Arabic loanwords and place names in Spanish and Portuguese, with emphasis on evidence, survival, memory, and overclaiming.
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Adab and Court Culture: Literature as Social Technology
A guide to adab as cultivated knowledge, literary practice, etiquette, and social performance in Andalusi court culture.
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Andalusian Poetry: Forms, Themes, Famous Voices
A guide to Andalusi poetry as social memory, court performance, love language, satire, praise, and political record.
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Arabic in al-Andalus: Prestige, Dialect, Everyday Use
A guide to Arabic as a language of rule, worship, scholarship, literature, status, and uneven everyday practice in al-Andalus.
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Berber Languages and Identity in the Maghreb and Iberia
A careful guide to Berber/Amazigh languages and identity in the Maghreb-Iberia world, with attention to visibility, power, migration, and source limits.
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Language and Literature
A guide to Arabic, Hebrew, Romance, and Berber language worlds, plus poetry, adab, court culture, translation, and place-name memory.