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eprints-22158
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eprints
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| institution |
SOAS, University of London
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| collection |
SOAS Research Online
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| language |
English
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English
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| description |
This article offers a critical close reading of the Urdu poet philosopher Muhammad Iqbal’s poem “Masjid-e Qurtaba” (The Mosque of Cordoba), written in 1933 when the poet travelled to Spain. He was officially invited there to pray, a unique occurrence since the mosque’s conversion into a cathedral. The poem is illustrative of the period known as al-Andalus, celebrated for its cross-cultural spirit of la convivencia (coexistence) under the sovereignty of the Umayyad dynasty. The article argues that the secular and the religious are not diametrically opposed ideas in the Indo-Islamic tradition of Urdu, and that Iqbal’s poem articulates a historic cultural conversation at a time of political national identification in the 1930s.
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| format |
Journal Article
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| author |
Yaqin, Amina
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| author_facet |
Yaqin, Amina
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| authorStr |
Yaqin, Amina
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| author_letter |
Yaqin, Amina
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| title |
La convivencia, la mezquita and al-Andalus: an Iqbalian vision
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| publisher |
Taylor and Francis
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| publishDate |
2016
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| url |
https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/22158/
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