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Yaqin, Amina (2016) 'La convivencia, la mezquita and al-Andalus: an Iqbalian vision.' Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 52 (2). pp. 136-152.

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Abstract

This article offers a critical close reading of the Urdu poet philosopher Muhammad Iqbal’s poem “Masjid-e Qurtaba” (The Mosque of Cordoba), written in 1933 when the poet travelled to Spain. He was officially invited there to pray, a unique occurrence since the mosque’s conversion into a cathedral. The poem is illustrative of the period known as al-Andalus, celebrated for its cross-cultural spirit of la convivencia (coexistence) under the sovereignty of the Umayyad dynasty. The article argues that the secular and the religious are not diametrically opposed ideas in the Indo-Islamic tradition of Urdu, and that Iqbal’s poem articulates a historic cultural conversation at a time of political national identification in the 1930s.

Item Type: Journal Article
SOAS Departments & Centres: Legacy Departments > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Centre for English Studies [closed]
Legacy Departments > Faculty of Languages and Cultures > Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia
ISSN: 17449863
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2016.1164972
Date Deposited: 14 Mar 2016 15:40
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/22158

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