{"product_id":"pascual-de-gayangos-9780748635474","title":"Pascual de Gayangos","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePascual de Gayangos (1809-97), celebrated Spanish Orientalist and polymath, is recognised as the father of the modern school of Arabic studies in Spain. He gave Islamic Spain its own voice, for the first time representing Spain''s ''other'' from ''within'' not from without. This collection, the first major study of Gayangos, celebrates the 200th anniversary of his birth.\u003cbr\u003eCovering a wide range of subjects, it reflects the multiple fields in which Gayangos was involved: scholarship on the culture of Islamic and Christian Spain; history, literature, art; conservation and preservation of national heritage; formation of archives and collections; education; tourism; diplomacy and politics. Amalgamating and understanding Gayangos''s multiple identities, it reinstates his importance for cultural life in nineteenth-century Spain, Britain and North America.\u003cbr\u003eIn the course of this book, Gayangos is shown to be a figure with many facets and several intellectual lives: Arabist, historian, liberal, researcher, editor, numismatist, traveller, translator, diplomat, perhaps a spy, a generous collaborator and one of Spain''s greatest bibliophiles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe contributions in this book are consistently well-written and offer convincing interpretations of interesting new material. ! This is an important contribution to the study of the history of Oriental Studies, which presents a much more nuanced picture than the clear-cut divisions often inferred from Said's Orientalism. -- Anna Akasoy, University of Oxford Journal of Islamic Studies The contributions in this book are consistently well-written and offer convincing interpretations of interesting new material. ! This is an important contribution to the study of the history of Oriental Studies, which presents a much more nuanced picture than the clear-cut divisions often inferred from Said's Orientalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; List of illustrations; I Introduction; 1. The Life of Pascual de Gayangos 1809-1897, Dr Cristina Alvarez Millan (Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Madrid); 2. Gayangos and the World of Politics: Part 1: 'Gayangos and politics in Spain', Miguel Angel Alvarez Ramos (Independent Scholar, Madrid); Part 2: 'Gayangos and the Whigs in Britain', Dr Claudia Heide (University of Edinburgh); II Arabism; 3. The Estranged Self of Spain: Oriental Obsessions in the Time of Gayangos, Professor Andrew Ginger (Stirling University); 4. Scholarship and Criticism: The Letters of Dozy to Gayangos (1841-1852), Professor Manuela Marin (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificos, Madrid); III Gayangos in the English-Speaking World; 5. Gayangos in the English context, Professor Richard Hitchcock (University of Exeter); 6. Gayangos: Prescott's Most Indispensible Aid, C. Harvey Gardiner (former Professor at the Southern University of Illinois); 7. 'Mas ven cuatro ojos que dos' - Gayangos and Anglo-American Hispanism, Dr Claudia Heide (University of Edinburgh); 8. Gayangos and the Boston Brahmins, Professor Thomas F. Glick (Boston University); IV Gayangos and Material Culture; 9. Pascual de Gayangos: A Scholarly Traveller, Miguel Angel Alvarez Ramos (Independent Scholar, Madrid); 10. Gayangos' Legacy: his son-in-law Juan Facundo Riano (1829-1901) and the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dr Marjorie Trusted, V\u0026amp;A.","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404485173591,"sku":"9780748635474","price":85.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pascual-de-gayangos-9780748635474","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}