A summary of the necessary virtues to the applicant in the mystical path: al-‘Awāṣim qawāṭi‘ al-qawāṣim of Ibn Sab‘īn (Ricote, Murcia, 13th. c.)
Carlos BERBIL
Original title: Un resumen de las virtudes necesarias para el aspirante en la vía mística: al-‘Awāṣim qawāṭi‘ al-qawāṣim, de Ibn Sab‘īn (Ricote, Murcia, s. XIII)
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Keywords: 13th century, Al-Andalus, Ibn Sabʿīn, Makkah, Sufism.
This article presents a preliminary study of a brief unpublished work by Ibn Sabʿīn. The author offers a summary of the "saviour practices", which are here related to "citadels" (ʿawāṣim), that can help the disciples in the spiritual path to stay away from misfortunes (qawāṣim).
Flavors of Celebration: Food and Public Festivities in Al-Andalus
Mourad EL FAHLI
Original title: Sabores de Celebración: Alimentación y Festividades Públicas en Al-Andalus
Published in Games from Antiquity to Baroque
Keywords: Al-Andalus, Culinary Traditions, Cultural Elements, Entertainment, Festive Celebrations, Religious Diversity.
This scholarly investigation intricately navigates the captivating juncture where festive celebrations intersect with culinary traditions within the historical context of Al-Andalus, offering nuanced insights into their pivotal function as forms of public entertainment. By immersing into historical archives, literary compositions, and culinary manuscripts, this scholarly inquiry unveils the multifaceted interplay of Islamic, Christian, and Jewish influences, culminating in a vibrant and culturally intricate culinary panorama. The analytical exploration delves into iconic celebrations such as ʿĪd al-Fitr and ʿĪd al-Adḥā, where Islamic practices seamlessly intertwined with the fabric of Arabic culinary heritage. Similarly, festivities such as al-ʿAnṣara and Nawrūz, which emanated from Christian and Jewish traditions, eloquently demonstrated the harmonious convergence of diverse cultural facets. Manifested through opulent arrays of tantalizing gastronomic offerings, these celebratory banquets embodied notions of opulence, camaraderie, and collective elation. The Andalusi disposition, oscillating between restrained modesty and opulent abundance, contributed an additional stratum of intricacy. In its essence, the cultural synthesis discernible within Al-Andalus vividly underscores how the amalgamation of multifarious culinary traditions served as a bridge between communities, facilitating the commemoration of unity during an embrace of religious diversity.
Moro-Moro Criticism and Aesthetics: al-Andalus and the Moors and Christians Philippine Theatre
Isaac DONOSO
Original title: Crítica i Estètica del Moro-moro: Al-àndalus i el teatre filipí. De moros i cristians
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Keywords: Al-Andalus, Alcoy, Hispanic Conquest’s Dramas, Komedya, Moro-Moro, Moros y Cristianos, Muslim-Christian Relations, Philippines.
This article analyzes the influence of al-Andalus in Asia and its paramount role in the definition of Islamicity in the Philippines. It studies the theatrical genre called Moros y Cristianos (Moors and Christians) which originated in Valencia ―in particular in Alcoy― and later attained a worldwide dissemination. The article describes the main elements of this genre (and the general festivities within which it takes place) as well as the ideological underpinnings of the battles between Muslims and Christians that take place during these festivities. The main purpose of the study is to identify cultural trends in the formation of the Komedya in the Philippines and the creation of the Moro-Morista tradition.
Semblance of Arabic Poetry
Juan BRANDO
Original title: Semblanza de la poesía árabe
Published in The Medieval Aesthetics
Keywords: Al-Andalus, Arabism, Islamic Law, Middle Ages, Poetry.
We propose a brief approach to the Arabic Poetry of the later Middle Ages with a Reading key centered on the metaphors alluding to wine, wáter, tears, dew and flowers. Prohibition and desire, postponenment and melancholy by the absence of the beloved or exile, the pains drowned in wine, are the ways by which poetry becomes a consideration of trascendence and primordial unity.
The Kingdom of Valence as a myth in the Moors’ Romances of the Philippines
Isaac DONOSO
Original title: El Regne de València, un mite dins els Romanços de moros de les Filipines
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Keywords: Al-Andalus, Asia, Kingdom of Valencia, Moors’ Romances, Philippine Literature.
This work analyzes the development of Philippine Metrical Romances and its Hispanic influences in both theatre («Moros y Cristianos») and epics (Books of Chivalry) in tracing the materialization of the Exotic. Specifically, it will focus on how an exotic topic like the Kingdom of Valencia is presented, recollecting the sources, characters and features along the Philippine corpus. At the end, the purpose will be to trace the literary elegy for the fall of Valencia from the Orient of al-Andalus to the Orient of Asia.
