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
- csames@illinois.edu
- Views
- 35
- 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.