The Alhambra at the crossroads of history : Eastern and Western visions in the long nineteenth century / Edhem Eldem.

Author/creator Eldem, Edhem author.
Format Book
PublicationEdinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2024.
Copyright Date©2024
Descriptionviii, 384 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Subjects
Patronato de la Alhambra (Granada, Spain)--History. --19th century.
Orientalism--Spain. --Granada. --History. --19th century.
East and West--History. --19th century.
Christianity and other religions--Islam. --History. --19th century.
Islam--Relations. --Christianity. --History. --19th century.

Contents List of Figures; Introduction: Trailing a Photograph; 1. North: Western and Spanish Visions of the Alhambra; 2. South: Visitors from the Maghreb; 3. East: Ottomans at the Alhambra; 4. Modernity: Dreams and Ideals; Conclusion: Connections, Engtanglements and Influences; Bibliography; Index
Abstract Examining the contemporary press, memoirs, travelogues and photographs - as well as the visitors' book, this title uses the Alhambra to build a history of the complex and entangled relations between East and West, North and South, Islam and Christianity, centre and periphery during the heyday of Orientalism and Western hegemony. A growing flow of visitors in the 19th century turned the Alhambra into a touristic destination and a major trope of Orientalism, created by Western authors and artists from Franois-Ren de Chateaubriand to Owen Jones and from Washington Irving to Jean-Lon Grme. Yet behind this Western infatuation lie scores of Oriental observers of the monument, as revealed by its visitors book, kept since 1829. This book uses this untapped source to analyse the perceptions of the Alhambra by multiple actors, including Westerners, Spaniards, Maghrebines, Ottoman Turks, Christian Arabs and Muslim Arabs from the Mashreq. In doing so, it reveals the existence of significant variations in both Western and Oriental perceptions of the monument, from Oriental Orientalism to Arab nationalism. Examining the contemporary press, memoirs, travelogues and photographs as well as the visitors book it uses the Alhambra to build a history of the complex and entangled relations between East and West, North and South, Islam and Christianity, centre and periphery during the heyday of Orientalism and Western hegemony.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN9781399524872
ISBN1399524879 hardback

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