{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/615750a87c49660011b1222f/628c91f2afcae40015cd18f9?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Episode 11: al-Andalus with Bruna Soravia (Italy)","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/615750a87c49660011b1222f/1653378839557-435775a072df6cedd6e08a438facecbe.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>How did government actually work in al-Andalus? In this episode, I discuss the <em>kitaba</em>, or 'art of the secretary', with Bruna Soravia. What did these secretaries (<em>kuttab</em>) do for rulers in eleventh-century Muslim Iberia? And how has the historiography of al-Andalus changed in recent years?</p><p><br></p><p>Works mentioned in the podcast:</p><ul><li>Umberto Bongianino,&nbsp;<a href=\"https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-manuscript-tradition-of-the-islamic-west.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Manuscript Tradition of the Islamic West Maghribi Round Scripts and the Andalusi Identity</em></a>, forthcoming</li><li>Umberto Bongianino, \"<a href=\"https://brill.com/view/journals/jim/11/3/article-p263_1.xml?language=en\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">A Rediscovered Almoravid Qurʾān in the Bavarian State Library, Munich (Cod. arab. 4)</a>\", <em>Journal of Islamic Manuscripts</em> 11 (2020)</li><li>Pierre Guichard and Bruna Soravia,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Les royaumes de taifas: apogée culturel et déclin politique des émirats andalous du XIe siècle</em>&nbsp;(2007)</li><li>Bruna Soravia, '<a href=\"Secretaries and the running of government\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Secretaries and the running of government</a>', in&nbsp;<em>The Routledge Handbook of Muslim Iberia</em>, ed. Maribel Fierro (2020), pp 271-289</li><li>Bruna Soravia,&nbsp;<em>La maîtrise de l'art de la prose&nbsp;d'Ibn ʿAbd al-Gafūr al-Kalāʿī</em>, forthcoming</li></ul><p><br></p><p><em>Music: Karen Gomyo (CC BY-NC 3.0)</em></p><p><em>Image: </em><a href=\"https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/view/bsb00117587?page=13\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Munich BSB Cod. arab</em></a><em>. 4</em>, p. 13 (CC-BY-NC 4.0)</p>","author_name":"Charles West"}