Book Talk: On Earth or in Poems: The Many Lives of Al-Andalus

Event Type

Meeting

Sponsor

Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Location

Illini Union Bookstore 2nd Floor Author’s Corner 809 S. Wright St, Champaign

Date

Dec 4, 2023   4:00 pm  

Speaker

Eric Calderwood, Associate Professor Comparative and World Literature

Contact

CSAMES

E-Mail

csames@illinois.edu

Views

6

Originating Calendar

Campus Humanities Calendar

During the Middle Ages, the Iberian Peninsula was home not to Spain and Portugal but rather to al-Andalus. Ruled by a succession of Islamic dynasties, al-Andalus came to be a shorthand for a legendary place where people from the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe; Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived together in peace.