Pascual de Gayangos : a nineteenth century Spanish Arabist /
"Pascual de Gayangos (1809-97), 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....
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2008
Edinburgh : c2008 |
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Table of Contents:
- I Introduction
- 1. Life of Pascual de Gayangos 189-1897 / Cristina Alvarez Millan
- 2. Gayangos and the World of Politics / Miguel Angel Alvarez Ramos / Claudia Heide
- II. Arabism
- 3. Estranged Self of Spain: Oriental Obsessions in the Time of Gayangos / Andrew Ginger
- 4. Scholarship and Criticism: The Letters of Reinhart Dozy to Pascual de Gayangos (1841-1852) / Manuela Marin
- III. Gayangos in the English-Speaking World
- 5. Gayangos in the English Context / Richard Hitchcock
- 6. Gayangos: Prescott's Most Indispensable Aide / C. Harvey Gardiner
- 7. Mas ven cuatro ojos que dos: Gayangos and Anglo-American Hispanism / Claudia Heide
- 8. Gayangos and the Boston Brahmins / Thomas F. Glick
- IV. Gayangos and Material Culture
- 9. Pascual de Gayangos: A Scholarly Traveller / Miguel Angel Alvarez Ramos
- 10. Gayangos's Legacy: His Son-in-Law Juan Facundo Riano (1829-1901) and the Victoria and Albert Museum / Marjorie Trusted.