Description: Pascual De GayangosA Nineteenth-century Spanish Arabist Author(s): Cristina Alvarez Millan, Claudia Heide Format: Hardback Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom Imprint: Edinburgh University Press ISBN-13: 9780748635474, 978-0748635474 Synopsis Pascual de Gayangos [tel] 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 politics. Amalgamating and understanding Gayangos's multiple identities, it reinstates his importance for cultural life in nineteenth-century Spain, Britain and North America. It is also argued that Gayangos's scholarly achievements and his influence have a political dimension. His work must be seen in relation to the quest for a national identity which marked the nineteenth century: what was the significance of Spain's Islamic past, and the Imperial Golden Age to the culture of modern Spain? The chapters, informed by post-colonial theory, reception theory and theories of national identity, uncover some of the complexities of the process that shaped Spain's national identity. In the course of this book, Gayangos is shown to be a figure with many facets and several intellectual lives: Arabist, historian, liberal, researcher, editor, numismatist, traveller, translator, diplomat, perhaps a spy, a generous collaborator and one of Spain's greatest bibliophiles.
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Book Title: Pascual De Gayangos
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Pascual De Gayangos: a Nineteenth-Century Spanish Arabist
Publisher: Edinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press
Publication Year: 2008
Subject: History
Item Height: 234 mm
Item Weight: 590 g
Type: Study Guide
Author: Claudia Heide, Cristina Alvarez Millan
Subject Area: Regional History, Social Organisations
Item Width: 156 mm
Format: Hardcover
