Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction. Andalusi and Sefardi Exceptionalism as Tropes of Islamic and Jewish Culture 1
6. Chapter 1. Geography and Destiny: The Genesis of Andalusi Exceptionalism in the Umayyad Caliphal Age 21
7. Chapter 2. Without al- Andalus, There Would Be No Sefarad: The Origins of Sefardi Exceptionalism 45
8. Chapter 3. The Cultural Turn: Andalusi Exceptionalism Through Arabic Adab, Following the Collapse of the Unitary State 74
9. Chapter 4. The Jerusalemite Exile That Is in Sefarad: Sefardi Exceptionalism (Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries) 106
10. Chapter 5. Out of Place with Exceptionalism on the Mind: Sefardi and Andalusi Travelers Abroad (Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries) 139
11. Conclusion. Andalusi, Sefardi, and Spanish Exceptionalism: Reclaimed, Embraced, Repudiated, Re imagined 172
12. Notes 195
13. Bibliography 239
14. Index 275