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Conference on Contemporaneous Parallels with Historical Andalusia,
Doha, Qatar 18 April 2015
(Paper in Arabic)
FACETED APPROXIMATION OF THE ANDALUSIAN TAIFAS AND THEIR
COUNTERPARTS IN MODERN ARAB WORLD
ADEL S. BISHTAWI
Historian and Researcher of the Origins of Ancient Arabian Languages
الاستقراب والمقاربة بين طوائف العصر الأندلسي
وطوائف العصر
عادل سعيد بشتاوي
مؤرخ وباحث في أصول الحضارات القديمة
The audience of the conference is university students and the public in general and this papper was prepared by the author at the request of the organizers who were keen on revisiting the history of the post Cordoba Caliphate in an attempt to draw certain lessons that may help in overcoming the contemporary "parallel" fragmentation of the political system in most of the Arab World.
This particular issue was treated separately in an appendix but additionally the au-thor used the opportunity to draw attention to the misunderstanding that may have been created due to wrong conclusions drawn by some readers of the author's two previous books on Andalusia and the Moriscos and a large number of papers and articles published on the two subjects over the past two decades.
Often, the author is puzzled by comments left on his websites or on other websites reviewing the two books and quoting from them promising to "liberate" Andalusia in due time or to rejoin it to Islam. Such readers are assured that Muslim Andalusia, or what's left of it, is safe in Christian Spain not least because Analusian monuments draw millions of tourists each year. The challenge for university granduates and others is to attempt to create a universal, multi-ethic, multi-religious culture similar to that created in Andalusia. The optimists amongst us may see such attempts under way in several countries.
It could be said that the history of Andalusia is well documented by Andalusian historians but surprisingly very few attempts have been made by contemporary authors to take the next logical step and attempt to place the history of Andalusia in a suitable universal historical and human context. Rooted in seminal eastern cultural concepts, the mature Andalusian culture was different in many ways and probably superior in certain aspects and much more universal and vividly colored. Ibn Manzoor did a good job compiling the multi-volume Lisan Al Arab Dictionary, a task which may not have been successfully completed without the huge contribution made by the Andalusian Ibn Sayyduh with his Al-Mukham dictionary. Likewise, Al Qurtabi's (the Cordovan) Quran interpretation is one of the best available.
To a large extent the human side of Andalusias remains shadowy or even fossolised in some ways. A better job is believed to have been done by researchers of the history of the Moriscos albeit insufficiently extended to the ancient ancestral roots of the Moriscos to avoid the possible confusion of regarding the Moriscos as different from the older Andalusians. Some Latin American authors have produced original research on cultural, social and architectural influences of the Moriscos in Latin America. The same is thought by some to have been adequately treated by Arab searchers in works involving the exiled Moriscos in North Africa.
In general, the paper can be described as a revisit of Andalusian history involving research and new reading of both classical historical records, and the author's own locational research accomplished during several extended tours of the entire Iberian Peninsula. Some of the research was incorporated in the two books written by the author while many papers and articles dealt with various topics including the economy of Iberia, science, castles, mathematics, etc.
Attachments to the paper include:
1- The political borders of the Taifa kingdoms,
2- List of Taifa kingdoms after the fall of the Caliphate,
3- The Odyssey of the exiled Moriscos in the New World and Old,
4- A study of the main components of the Andalusian and Northern economies,
5- A number of commissioned political maps of Iberia covering the periods from the conquest to surrender of Granada,
6- Comparative cities map of Iberia of current names and names used by Andalusian,
7- Timeline of Andalusia,
8- Caliphs, princes and kings of Andalusia and the Christian north,
9- Bibliography.
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Conference on Contemporaneous Parallels with Historical Andalusia,
Doha, Qatar 18 April 2015
(Paper in Arabic)
FACETED APPROXIMATION OF THE ANDALUSIAN TAIFAS AND THEIR
COUNTERPARTS IN MODERN ARAB WORLD
ADEL S. BISHTAWI
Historian and Researcher of the Origins of Ancient Arabian Languages
الاستقراب والمقاربة بين طوائف العصر الأندلسي
وطوائف العصر
عادل سعيد بشتاوي
مؤرخ وباحث في أصول الحضارات القديمة
The audience of the conference is university students and the public in general and this papper was prepared by the author at the request of the organizers who were keen on revisiting the history of the post Cordoba Caliphate in an attempt to draw certain lessons that may help in overcoming the contemporary "parallel" fragmentation of the political system in most of the Arab World.
This particular issue was treated separately in an appendix but additionally the au-thor used the opportunity to draw attention to the misunderstanding that may have been created due to wrong conclusions drawn by some readers of the author's two previous books on Andalusia and the Moriscos and a large number of papers and articles published on the two subjects over the past two decades.
Often, the author is puzzled by comments left on his websites or on other websites reviewing the two books and quoting from them promising to "liberate" Andalusia in due time or to rejoin it to Islam. Such readers are assured that Muslim Andalusia, or what's left of it, is safe in Christian Spain not least because Analusian monuments draw millions of tourists each year. The challenge for university granduates and others is to attempt to create a universal, multi-ethic, multi-religious culture similar to that created in Andalusia. The optimists amongst us may see such attempts under way in several countries.
It could be said that the history of Andalusia is well documented by Andalusian historians but surprisingly very few attempts have been made by contemporary authors to take the next logical step and attempt to place the history of Andalusia in a suitable universal historical and human context. Rooted in seminal eastern cultural concepts, the mature Andalusian culture was different in many ways and probably superior in certain aspects and much more universal and vividly colored. Ibn Manzoor did a good job compiling the multi-volume Lisan Al Arab Dictionary, a task which may not have been successfully completed without the huge contribution made by the Andalusian Ibn Sayyduh with his Al-Mukham dictionary. Likewise, Al Qurtabi's (the Cordovan) Quran interpretation is one of the best available.
To a large extent the human side of Andalusias remains shadowy or even fossolised in some ways. A better job is believed to have been done by researchers of the history of the Moriscos albeit insufficiently extended to the ancient ancestral roots of the Moriscos to avoid the possible confusion of regarding the Moriscos as different from the older Andalusians. Some Latin American authors have produced original research on cultural, social and architectural influences of the Moriscos in Latin America. The same is thought by some to have been adequately treated by Arab searchers in works involving the exiled Moriscos in North Africa.
In general, the paper can be described as a revisit of Andalusian history involving research and new reading of both classical historical records, and the author's own locational research accomplished during several extended tours of the entire Iberian Peninsula. Some of the research was incorporated in the two books written by the author while many papers and articles dealt with various topics including the economy of Iberia, science, castles, mathematics, etc.
Attachments to the paper include:
1- The political borders of the Taifa kingdoms,
2- List of Taifa kingdoms after the fall of the Caliphate,
3- The Odyssey of the exiled Moriscos in the New World and Old,
4- A study of the main components of the Andalusian and Northern economies,
5- A number of commissioned political maps of Iberia covering the periods from the conquest to surrender of Granada,
6- Comparative cities map of Iberia of current names and names used by Andalusian,
7- Timeline of Andalusia,
8- Caliphs, princes and kings of Andalusia and the Christian north,
9- Bibliography.
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Conference on Contemporaneous Parallels with Historical Andalusia,
Doha, Qatar 18 April 2015
(Paper in Arabic)
FACETED APPROXIMATION OF THE ANDALUSIAN TAIFAS AND THEIR
COUNTERPARTS IN MODERN ARAB WORLD
ADEL S. BISHTAWI
Historian and Researcher of the Origins of Ancient Arabian Languages
الاستقراب والمقاربة بين طوائف العصر الأندلسي
وطوائف العصر
عادل سعيد بشتاوي
مؤرخ وباحث في أصول الحضارات القديمة
The audience of the conference is university students and the public in general and this papper was prepared by the author at the request of the organizers who were keen on revisiting the history of the post Cordoba Caliphate in an attempt to draw certain lessons that may help in overcoming the contemporary "parallel" fragmentation of the political system in most of the Arab World.
This particular issue was treated separately in an appendix but additionally the au-thor used the opportunity to draw attention to the misunderstanding that may have been created due to wrong conclusions drawn by some readers of the author's two previous books on Andalusia and the Moriscos and a large number of papers and articles published on the two subjects over the past two decades.
Often, the author is puzzled by comments left on his websites or on other websites reviewing the two books and quoting from them promising to "liberate" Andalusia in due time or to rejoin it to Islam. Such readers are assured that Muslim Andalusia, or what's left of it, is safe in Christian Spain not least because Analusian monuments draw millions of tourists each year. The challenge for university granduates and others is to attempt to create a universal, multi-ethic, multi-religious culture similar to that created in Andalusia. The optimists amongst us may see such attempts under way in several countries.
It could be said that the history of Andalusia is well documented by Andalusian historians but surprisingly very few attempts have been made by contemporary authors to take the next logical step and attempt to place the history of Andalusia in a suitable universal historical and human context. Rooted in seminal eastern cultural concepts, the mature Andalusian culture was different in many ways and probably superior in certain aspects and much more universal and vividly colored. Ibn Manzoor did a good job compiling the multi-volume Lisan Al Arab Dictionary, a task which may not have been successfully completed without the huge contribution made by the Andalusian Ibn Sayyduh with his Al-Mukham dictionary. Likewise, Al Qurtabi's (the Cordovan) Quran interpretation is one of the best available.
To a large extent the human side of Andalusias remains shadowy or even fossolised in some ways. A better job is believed to have been done by researchers of the history of the Moriscos albeit insufficiently extended to the ancient ancestral roots of the Moriscos to avoid the possible confusion of regarding the Moriscos as different from the older Andalusians. Some Latin American authors have produced original research on cultural, social and architectural influences of the Moriscos in Latin America. The same is thought by some to have been adequately treated by Arab searchers in works involving the exiled Moriscos in North Africa.
In general, the paper can be described as a revisit of Andalusian history involving research and new reading of both classical historical records, and the author's own locational research accomplished during several extended tours of the entire Iberian Peninsula. Some of the research was incorporated in the two books written by the author while many papers and articles dealt with various topics including the economy of Iberia, science, castles, mathematics, etc.
Attachments to the paper include:
1- The political borders of the Taifa kingdoms,
2- List of Taifa kingdoms after the fall of the Caliphate,
3- The Odyssey of the exiled Moriscos in the New World and Old,
4- A study of the main components of the Andalusian and Northern economies,
5- A number of commissioned political maps of Iberia covering the periods from the conquest to surrender of Granada,
6- Comparative cities map of Iberia of current names and names used by Andalusian,
7- Timeline of Andalusia,
8- Caliphs, princes and kings of Andalusia and the Christian north,
9- Bibliography.
[email protected]
Conference on Contemporaneous Parallels with Historical Andalusia,
Doha, Qatar 18 April 2015
(Paper in Arabic)
FACETED APPROXIMATION OF THE ANDALUSIAN TAIFAS AND THEIR
COUNTERPARTS IN MODERN ARAB WORLD
ADEL S. BISHTAWI
Historian and Researcher of the Origins of Ancient Arabian Languages
الاستقراب والمقاربة بين طوائف العصر الأندلسي
وطوائف العصر
عادل سعيد بشتاوي
مؤرخ وباحث في أصول الحضارات القديمة
The audience of the conference is university students and the public in general and this papper was prepared by the author at the request of the organizers who were keen on revisiting the history of the post Cordoba Caliphate in an attempt to draw certain lessons that may help in overcoming the contemporary "parallel" fragmentation of the political system in most of the Arab World.
This particular issue was treated separately in an appendix but additionally the au-thor used the opportunity to draw attention to the misunderstanding that may have been created due to wrong conclusions drawn by some readers of the author's two previous books on Andalusia and the Moriscos and a large number of papers and articles published on the two subjects over the past two decades.
Often, the author is puzzled by comments left on his websites or on other websites reviewing the two books and quoting from them promising to "liberate" Andalusia in due time or to rejoin it to Islam. Such readers are assured that Muslim Andalusia, or what's left of it, is safe in Christian Spain not least because Analusian monuments draw millions of tourists each year. The challenge for university granduates and others is to attempt to create a universal, multi-ethic, multi-religious culture similar to that created in Andalusia. The optimists amongst us may see such attempts under way in several countries.
It could be said that the history of Andalusia is well documented by Andalusian historians but surprisingly very few attempts have been made by contemporary authors to take the next logical step and attempt to place the history of Andalusia in a suitable universal historical and human context. Rooted in seminal eastern cultural concepts, the mature Andalusian culture was different in many ways and probably superior in certain aspects and much more universal and vividly colored. Ibn Manzoor did a good job compiling the multi-volume Lisan Al Arab Dictionary, a task which may not have been successfully completed without the huge contribution made by the Andalusian Ibn Sayyduh with his Al-Mukham dictionary. Likewise, Al Qurtabi's (the Cordovan) Quran interpretation is one of the best available.
To a large extent the human side of Andalusias remains shadowy or even fossolised in some ways. A better job is believed to have been done by researchers of the history of the Moriscos albeit insufficiently extended to the ancient ancestral roots of the Moriscos to avoid the possible confusion of regarding the Moriscos as different from the older Andalusians. Some Latin American authors have produced original research on cultural, social and architectural influences of the Moriscos in Latin America. The same is thought by some to have been adequately treated by Arab searchers in works involving the exiled Moriscos in North Africa.
In general, the paper can be described as a revisit of Andalusian history involving research and new reading of both classical historical records, and the author's own locational research accomplished during several extended tours of the entire Iberian Peninsula. Some of the research was incorporated in the two books written by the author while many papers and articles dealt with various topics including the economy of Iberia, science, castles, mathematics, etc.
Attachments to the paper include:
1- The political borders of the Taifa kingdoms,
2- List of Taifa kingdoms after the fall of the Caliphate,
3- The Odyssey of the exiled Moriscos in the New World and Old,
4- A study of the main components of the Andalusian and Northern economies,
5- A number of commissioned political maps of Iberia covering the periods from the conquest to surrender of Granada,
6- Comparative cities map of Iberia of current names and names used by Andalusian,
7- Timeline of Andalusia,
8- Caliphs, princes and kings of Andalusia and the Christian north,
9- Bibliography.