• Episode 11: al-Andalus with Bruna Soravia (Italy)

  • May 24 2022
  • Length: 21 mins
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Episode 11: al-Andalus with Bruna Soravia (Italy)

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  • How did government actually work in al-Andalus? In this episode, I discuss the kitaba, or 'art of the secretary', with Bruna Soravia. What did these secretaries (kuttab) do for rulers in eleventh-century Muslim Iberia? And how has the historiography of al-Andalus changed in recent years?


    Works mentioned in the podcast:

    • Umberto Bongianino, The Manuscript Tradition of the Islamic West Maghribi Round Scripts and the Andalusi Identity, forthcoming
    • Umberto Bongianino, "A Rediscovered Almoravid Qurʾān in the Bavarian State Library, Munich (Cod. arab. 4)", Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 11 (2020)
    • Pierre Guichard and Bruna Soravia,  Les royaumes de taifas: apogée culturel et déclin politique des émirats andalous du XIe siècle (2007)
    • Bruna Soravia, 'Secretaries and the running of government', in The Routledge Handbook of Muslim Iberia, ed. Maribel Fierro (2020), pp 271-289
    • Bruna Soravia, La maîtrise de l'art de la prose d'Ibn ʿAbd al-Gafūr al-Kalāʿī, forthcoming


    Music: Karen Gomyo (CC BY-NC 3.0)

    Image: Munich BSB Cod. arab. 4, p. 13 (CC-BY-NC 4.0)


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