Beschreibung:
This new volume offers an annotated English translation of the unicum manuscript of the Hadîth Bayâd wa Riyâd, the only illustrated manuscript known to have survived from more than eight centuries of Muslim and Arabic-speaking presence in present-day Spain.
Introduction 1. Translation 2. Love Localized and Science from Afar: The Image Program of the Hadîth Bayâd wa Riyâd 3. Alfonso, the Almohads and the 'Ajouz: The Hadîth Bayâd wa Riyâd, Courtliness and Culture in Thirteenth-Century Iberia 4. Wandering in Babylon: The Hadîth Bayâd wa Riyâd and the roman idyllique Bibliography Index