Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgements x
5. Notes on Contributors xi
6. I Departure Points
7. Introduction: Concepts, Origins, Aims 3
8. 1 Al-Andalus in Motion: Paths and Perspectives 23
9. II Translating Al-Andalus: Travelling across Languages
10. 2 Translating Tales of True Friendship out of Al-Andalus: The Medieval Castilian and Hebrew Translations of Kalila wa-Dimna 55
11. 3 The Return of an Andalusi Moment: Sephardi Alternatives to the Monolingual Imagination, Pre- and Post-Partitioned Palestine 81
12. III (Re)Visions of Al-Andalus in Diaspora and Exile
13. 4 The Return to Al-Andalus in Blanco White’s ‘The Alcázar of Seville 107
14. 5 Bystanders and Borderlands: The Andalusi Frontier and the Sephardic Ballad 127
15. IV Andalusi Space as Node and Utopia: Europe, Islam, Empire
16. 6 Andalusi Space and the European Network in the German Rolandslied 157
17. 7 Andalusi Utopia and Muslim Modernity in Late Nineteenth-Century Russia: Ismail Gasprinskii’s Epistolary Novel Dar al-Rahat 179
18. V Al-Andalus and the Politics of Religious Identity
19. 8 Al-Andalus on the Mind: The Jewish Golden Age and the Spanish Inquisition in Nineteenth- Century American Jewish Historical Writing 207
20. 9 Medievalist Passports: Contested Rights of Return for the Descendants of Medieval Iberian Jews and Muslims 227
21. VI Legacies, Landscapes and ‘Travel Buildings’
22. 10 The ‘Orient’ Express: The Neo-Mudéjar Train Station in Toledo and the Spanish Debate on National Architectural Style 253
23. 11 The Forgotten ‘Orient’: Travel Writing in Portugal, c. 1930–49 289
24. Epilogue
25. 12 Travelling with and through Al-Andalus 313
26. Index 341