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For centuries, impoverished Andalusians from southern Spain have emigrated to the New World, northern Europe and northern Spain as both immigrants and guest workers. Spain's transition to democracy and increasing affluence, which preceded wide-scale, rapid immigration in the 198…

This Ph.D. dissertation examines the classical Arabic poetic phenomenon of mu‘āradah (contrafaction) with a focus on panegyric odes by poets of al-Andalus (medieval Muslim Spain) that are imitations of odes by the Abbasid master-poets of the Arab East. Using contemporary theoret…

This dissertation ethnographically explores the cooperative and conflictive encounters emerging between and among Muslim converts, Muslim immigrants, and non-Muslim Andalusians in Granada, Spain. It examines their varying narratives about the place of Muslims in Spain (both past…