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For a translation and study of Mir’at al-quds, see Pedro Moura Carvalho, Mir’āt al-quds (Mirror of Holiness): A Life of Christ for Emperor Akbar (Brill, 2012). Available here: https://t.co/XxIrPBB9me
Poetic lament (marthiyya) commemorating the martyrdom of al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Alī (d. 680) composed by the Andalusi litterateur Ṣafwān ibn Idrīs of Murcia (d. 1202) & preserved in the works of the Granadan scholar-statesman Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khaṭīb (d. 1374).
On vacation here this week, currently staying between the lovely Lago del Café and the Río de las Excusas. Come visit.
10 books I’m hoping to read this summer. What’s on everyone’s own #SummerReading list? Always looking forward to more suggestions.
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Ibn al-Athir (d. 1233) on the Fourth Crusade & the Latin Conquest of Constantinople in 1204
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Illustrations from the 13th-c. Andalusi MS "Hadith Bayad wa Riyad" (Vatican Library, Codex Vat. Arabo 368)
Frederick II and the Rebellion of the Muslims of Sicily, 1200-1224 http://t.co/60v35P3wBr