The Feeling of History

Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia

The Feeling of History
Charles Hirschkind
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23 Feb 2021 US
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9780226746951
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Today it seems the lines between Europe and the Middle East, between Christian Europeans and Muslim immigrants in their midst, are hardening. Daily editorials compare the contemporary arrival of Muslim refugees with the "Muslim conquest of 711," warning that Europe will be called on to defend its southern and eastern borders. Violence and paranoia are alive and well in Fortress Europe. The Feeling of History examines the idea of andalucismo-a modern tradition founded on the principle that contemporary Andalusia is linked in vitally important ways with medieval Islamic Iberia. Charles Hirschkind explores the works and lives of writers, thinkers, poets, artists, and activists and shows how together they have elaborated an Andalusian sensorium. Hirschkind also carefully traces the various itineraries of andalucismo, from both colonial and anti-colonial efforts to contemporary movements supporting immigrant rights. The Feeling of History offers a nuanced view into the way people experience their own past while bearing witness to a philosophy of engaging the Middle East that experiments with alternative futures.
"The Feeling of History is an utterly original and exciting book. Hirschkind writes with great sensibility, subtly demonstrating the education that he and his subjects go through in their respective journeys. His erudite treatment of layers of Arabic and Islamic culture, and of a vast range of Spanish history, culture, and politics, is both subtle and rich. No other book achieves so much in so many registers, and no anthropologist has done this kind of multilayered work. "-- "Gil Anidjar, author of ' Our Place in al-Andalus: Kabbalah, Philosophy, Literature in Arab Jewish Letters' " "With a marvelous confluence of sense and sensibility, Hirschkind offers careful correction to the courses we too readily navigate from the past. Speaking directly to the resonance and imbrication of ' Islam' and ' Europe' in the sounds and edifices of Granada, The Feeling of History is a luminous, deeply thoughtful, and unusually thought-provoking account of the salience of historical receptivity and imagination for contemporary ethical, aesthetic, and political life everywhere. "-- "Michael Lambek, author of ' The Ethical Condition: Essays on Action, Person, and Value' "
Charles Hirschkind is associate professor of anthropology at the University California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics.
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ISBN-13: 9780226746951
Published: 23 Feb 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback
Pages: 216

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