Case in Point: Complete Case Interview Preparation: Third Edition by Cosentino Marc P

Case in Point: Complete Case Interview Preparation: Third Edition by Cosentino Marc P

This volume offers a reconstruction of the court culture of the taifa kings of al-Andalus (11th century A.D.), using both visual and textual evidence. A focus of particular attention is the court of the Banū Hūd at Zaragoza, and that dynasty's palace, the Aljafer a. Principle written sources are not histories and chronicles, but the untranslated poetic anthologies of al-ḥimyarī and al-Fatḥ ibn Khāqān.
The first part of the book addresses taifa visual and literary languages, with especial emphasis on connections between the literary and visual aspects of taifa aesthetics. The sections on the Aljafer a's ornamental program will be of particular interest, not only to historians of Islamic art, but to students of all visual traditions with strong non-figural components.
In addition, Part One also proposes that taifa court culture has been considered as a culture of courtly love, and this argument also forms the point of departure for Part Two. The second part of the study uses luxury objects of Islamic and Limousine production as a point of departure for a detailed comparison of the thematics of taifa poetry in classical Arabic on the themes of courtly love and pleasures with those of the better-known Proven al tradition.

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ISBN 13	9780970431707
ISBN 10	0970431708
Title	Case in Point: Complete Case Interview Preparation: Third Edition
Author	Cosentino Marc P
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Burgee Press
Year published	2004-01-13
Number of pages	166
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