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Pascual de Gayangos: A Nineteenth-Century Spanish Arabist
Cristina Alvarez Millan (Ed.)
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Hardback. Pascual de Gayangos (1809-1897), celebrated Spanish Orientalist and polymath, is recognised as the father of the modern school of Arabic studies in Spain. This collection celebrates the 200th anniversary of his birth Editor(s): Alvarez Millan, Cristina; Heide, Claudia. Num Pages: 264 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; GTB; HBTB; JFSR2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 13. Weight in Grams: 586.
Pascual de Gayangos (1809-97) celebrated Spanish Orientalist and polymath, is recognised as the father of the modern school of Arabic studies in Spain. He gave Islamic Spain its own voice, for the first time representing Spain's 'other' from 'within' not from without. This collection, the first major study of Gayangos, celebrates the 200th anniversary of his birth. Covering a wide range of subjects, it reflects the multiple fields in which Gayangos was involved: scholarship on the culture of Islamic and Christian Spain; history, literature, art; conservation and preservation of national heritage; formation of archives and collections; education; tourism; diplomacy and ... Read more
Pascual de Gayangos (1809-97) celebrated Spanish Orientalist and polymath, is recognised as the father of the modern school of Arabic studies in Spain. He gave Islamic Spain its own voice, for the first time representing Spain's 'other' from 'within' not from without. This collection, the first major study of Gayangos, celebrates the 200th anniversary of his birth. Covering a wide range of subjects, it reflects the multiple fields in which Gayangos was involved: scholarship on the culture of Islamic and Christian Spain; history, literature, art; conservation and preservation of national heritage; formation of archives and collections; education; tourism; diplomacy and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
264
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748635474
SKU
V9780748635474
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About Cristina Alvarez Millan (Ed.)
Cristina Alvarez Millan is a Research Fellow in the Department of Medieval History at the UNED (Madrid). An Arabist, and a former Research Fellow at the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine (London), she specialises in medieval Islamic Medicine. She was involved with research into the Oriental Collection in the Real Academia de la Historia. Claudia Heide ... Read more
Reviews for Pascual de Gayangos: A Nineteenth-Century Spanish Arabist
The contributions in this book are consistently well-written and offer convincing interpretations of interesting new material. ! This is an important contribution to the study of the history of Oriental Studies, which presents a much more nuanced picture than the clear-cut divisions often inferred from Said's Orientalism.
Anna Akasoy, University of Oxford Journal of Islamic Studies The contributions in ... Read more
Anna Akasoy, University of Oxford Journal of Islamic Studies The contributions in ... Read more