Granada
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Granada

The Light of Andalucía

  1. 390 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Granada

The Light of Andalucía

About this book

AN INDEPENDENT TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR
A TELEGRAPH TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR Yearning for a change, Steven Nightingale took his family to live in the ancient Andalucian city of Granada. But as he journeyed through its hidden courtyards, scented gardens and sun-warmed plazas, Steven discovered that Granada's present cannot be separated from its past, and began an eight-year quest to discover more. Where once Christians, Muslims and Jews lived peacefully together and the arts and sciences flourished, Granada also witnessed brutality: places of worship razed to the ground, books burned, massacre and anarchy. In the 1600s the once-populous city was reduced to 6, 000 who lived among rubble. In the next three centuries, the deterioration worsened, and the city became a refuge for anarchists; then during the Spanish Civil War, fascism took hold. Literary and sensual, Steven Nightingale produces a portrait of a now-thriving city and the joy he discovered there, revealing the resilience and kindness of its people, the resonance of its gardens and architecture and the cyclical nature of darkness and light in the history of Andalucia. At once personal and far-reaching, Granada is an epic journey through the soul of this most iconic of cities.

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Information

Publisher
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9781857886313
eBook ISBN
9781857889574
Topic
Personal Development
Subtopic
Travel

INDEX

A
Abbas, 36
Abbasids, 36–37, 161
Abd al-Rahman I, 149
Abd al-Rahman II, 161, 163
Abd al-Rahman III, 183
Abraham, 120, 268
Abraham bar Hiyya, 116–117, 119, 147
Book of Geometry, 116–117
Abu Abdallah, 266–267
Abu Imran, 267
Abulcasis, 157–160
The Method of Medicine, 157
Abuteus Levita, 119
Abu Yaqub, 137
aceituna, 218
acenas, 218
acequía, 218
Achilles, 242
Adam and Eve, 28, 29, 30, 171, 172
adarves, 51–52
Adelard of Bath, 116
“Advice for a Future King” (Ibn Hasdai), 135
Africa, 31, 37, 62, 112, 161, 246
agriculture, 150–155
‘Alam, 162
Al-Andalus, 32, 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 71, 72, 73–74, 77, 78, 79, 83, 96, 99, 107, 109–175, 182–188, 228, 229, 259, 266, 269, 275, 283, 287, 308, 312
commerce, 212–218, 226, 229
conviviencia, 95, 119–132, 149, 164, 170, 180, 182–188, 228, 230, 247, 250, 251, 261, 268, 288
education, 220–222
erotic arts, 169–175, 178
flamenco puro, 278–286, 295
land holdings, 219
mathematics, 146–150, 241–259
medicine, 156–160
monarchs, 223–229
music, 161–169
mysticism, 178–182
numbers, 247–259
philosophy, 142–146
poets, 129–137
precious metals, 208–211, 226
songs, 286–292
tilework, 247–259, 261, 266
Alans, 69
albañiles, 20–21, 31...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. One Afternoon in Granada
  7. The Carmen of Our Serendipity
  8. The Time Travels of a Garden
  9. Where Walking Is Like Flying
  10. Al-Andalus: Notes on a Hidden, Lustrous, Indispensable Era
  11. Al-Andalus and 1492: the Plate Tectonics of History
  12. A Few Notions of Geometry and Revelation
  13. The Lucid Work of Love and Helpfulness
  14. On Flamenco, Poetry, Genius, and Murder
  15. The Secret in the Labyrinth
  16. Recommended Reading and Listening
  17. Acknowledgements
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index
  21. Plates