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The Alhambra at the crossroads of history : Eastern and Western visions in the long nineteenth century

Eldem, Edhem, author

2024

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Examining the contemporary press, memoirs, travelogues and photographs - as well as the visitors' book, this title uses the Alhambra to build a history of the complex and entangled relations between East and West, North and South, Islam and Christianity, centre and periphery during the heyday of Orientalism and Western hegemony. A growing flow of visitors in the 19th century turned the Alhambra into a touristic destination and a major trope of Orientalism, created by Western authors and artists from Franois-Ren de Chateaubriand to Owen Jones and from Washington Irving to Jean-Lon Grme. Yet behind this Western infatuation lie scores of Oriental observers of the monument, as revealed by its visitors book, kept since 1829. This book uses this untapped source to analyse the perceptions of the Alhambra by multiple actors, including Westerners, Spaniards, Maghrebines, Ottoman Turks, Christian Arabs and Muslim Arabs from the Mashreq. In doing so, it reveals the existence of significant variations in both Western and Oriental perceptions of the monument, from Oriental Orientalism to Arab nationalism. Examining the contemporary press, memoirs, travelogues and photographs as well as the visitors book it uses the Alhambra to build a history of the complex and entangled relations between East and West, North and South, Islam and Christianity, centre and periphery during the heyday of Orientalism and Western hegemony.

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Subject: Patronato de la Alhambra (Granada, Spain) History 19th century. / Orientalism Spain Granada History 19th century. / East and West History 19th century. / Christianity and other religions Islam History 19th century. / Islam Relations Christianity History 19th century. / Orientalisme Espagne Grenade Histoire 19e siècle. / Christianisme Relations Islam Histoire 19e siècle. / Islam Relations Christianisme Histoire 19e siècle. / European history / Middle Eastern history / Social & cultural history / History / History of ideas / Spain / Social groups: religious groups & communities / Turkey / Ottoman Empire / 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899 / General & world history / Middle East / Portugal / History.
• ISBN: 9781399524872, 1399524879

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DP402.A4 E43 2024	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE