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In the Light of Medieval Spain: Islam and the West, and the Relevance of the Past

In the Light of Medieval Spain: Islam and the West, and the Relevance of the Past Al-Masaq, Vol. 23, No. 3, December 2011 Review Essay In the Light of Medieval Spain: Islam and the West, and the Relevance of the Past SIMON R. DOUBLEDAY and DAVID COLEMAN (Eds), 2008 [The New Middle Ages] New York: Palgrave Macmillan Xx þ 217 pp., ill. $85.00 (hardcover) ISBN 9781403983895 This cluster of essays about the relevance of the past and history for the examination of the present is of great interest. As the title of the series in which it appears, ‘The New Middle Ages’, indicates, it concerns the medieval past that specialists offer to revisit in the light of its connections with the realities of the present, in this instance via a case-study of al-Andalus. The old polity of Islamic Spain certainly compels one to reconsider the vision of the medieval past belonging to the past as it continues to exist virtually through a protean phenomenon of actualisation in politics, literature, and other cultural and social milieus. In the framework of the complex relationship between the Islamic and Western worlds, noticeably after 11 September 2001, different protagonists of the international scene have revived, invoked or reinterpreted the history of Islamic Spain. This phenomenon is analysed from different http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

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Al-Masaq, Vol. 23, No. 3, December 2011 Review Essay In the Light of Medieval Spain: Islam and the West, and the Relevance of the Past SIMON R. DOUBLEDAY and DAVID COLEMAN (Eds), 2008 [The New Middle Ages] New York: Palgrave Macmillan Xx þ 217 pp., ill. $85.00 (hardcover) ISBN 9781403983895 This cluster of essays about the relevance of the past and history for the examination of the present is of great interest. As the title of the series in which it appears, ‘The New Middle...
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Al-Masaq, Vol. 23, No. 3, December 2011 Review Essay In the Light of Medieval Spain: Islam and the West, and the Relevance of the Past SIMON R. DOUBLEDAY and DAVID COLEMAN (Eds), 2008 [The New Middle Ages] New York: Palgrave Macmillan Xx þ 217 pp., ill. $85.00 (hardcover) ISBN 9781403983895 This cluster of essays about the relevance of the past and history for the examination of the present is of great interest. As the title of the series in which it appears, ‘The New Middle Ages’, indicates, it concerns the medieval past that specialists offer to revisit in the light of its connections with the realities of the present, in this instance via a case-study of al-Andalus. The old polity of Islamic Spain certainly compels one to reconsider the vision of the medieval past belonging to the past as it continues to exist virtually through a protean phenomenon of actualisation in politics, literature, and other cultural and social milieus. In the framework of the complex relationship between the Islamic and Western worlds, noticeably after 11 September 2001, different protagonists of the international scene have revived, invoked or reinterpreted the history of Islamic Spain. This phenomenon is analysed from different

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