Islam, Nationalism, and 1000 Years of European Poetry
From The Song of Roland to The Highland Lute
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 29 August 2025
- ISBN 9781041031215
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages206 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 540 g
- Language English 691
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Islam, Nationalism, and 1000 Years of European Poetry considers the long history of Islam and European poetry and its central importance in the development of European culture.
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Islam, Nationalism, and 1000 Years of European Poetry considers the long history of Islam and European poetry and its central importance in the development of European culture.
David Aberbach offers a panoramic history of European poetry as it was affected by the centuries-long conflict between Islam and Christianity, from the early-medieval Old French chanson de geste, The Song of Roland, set against the Muslim invasion of France in the eighth century, to Fishta’s The Highland Lute, the early-twentieth-century Albanian epic of the struggle for independence from Ottoman rule, achieved in 1912. Aberbach surveys some of the outstanding poetry set against Islamic conquests and domination, particularly in Spain and the Balkans. The book includes detailed comparisons between medieval and modern Arabic and Hebrew poetry, closely linked in technique and subject matter, but moving apart after 1789. A result of constant religious warfare in Europe was disillusionment with religion, increasing focus on humanistic concerns, and the evolution of a secular state separate from religion.
This captivating history of Islam and European poetry will be of great interest to any scholars of nationalism, Jewish and Islamic studies, history, comparative literature, and cultural studies.
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Foreword by Oliver Leaman
Acknowledgements
Chronological Table: Islam and European Poetry
Introduction
1. Islam and European National Poetry: conflict and creativity
2. The Reconquista and Spanish Hebrew Poetry
3. Seventeenth-century English poetry: the homiletic separation of Church and State
4. National Poetry and Russian-Ottoman Imperial Conflict, 1789-1914
5. The Greek War of Independence and Its Poetry
6. European Hebrew and Arabic Poetry: the parting of the ways 1789-1939
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