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Villa Zorayda, a museum in St. Augustine, Florida based on a wing of the Alhambra, takes its name from a character in Irving's book [13] (specifically from "Legend of the Three Beautiful Princesses" [14]). The city of Alhambra, California is named after the book. In 1874, the daughter of Benjamin Wilson was reading the book and encouraged him ...
The Alhambra (/ æ l ˈ h æ m b r ə /, Spanish:; Arabic: الْحَمْرَاء, romanized: al-ḥamrāʼ ) is a palace and fortress complex located in Granada, Spain.It is one of the most famous monuments of Islamic architecture and one of the best-preserved palaces of the historic Islamic world.
After the war Castella briefly continued both wartime and Granadan topics; La rosa del Maestrazgo (1940) [39] pictured romance episodes during the Levantine campaign, while La hija de la Alhambra [40] and Ópalos de fuego [41] explored local features (both 1940). Afterwards the author abandoned themes related to both wartime action and Granada ...
Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree is a historical novel by British Pakistani writer Tariq Ali, first published in 1992.The first of Ali's Islam quintet, a series of historical novels about the confrontations between Islamic and Christian cultures, this novel is set shortly after the reconquista of Kingdom of Granada in Muslim Iberia by the army of Ferdinand and Isabella in the late fifteenth ...
Granada is a trilogy by the Egyptian author, Radwa Ashour. The trilogy consists of three novels: Granada, Maryama, and Departure. [1] The events of the first novel take place upon the fall of the Nasrid Emirate of Granada, the last Islamic kingdom in medieval Iberia. The novel begins with descriptions of Muslim life in Granada, with focus on ...
The Alhambra was a palace complex and citadel begun in 1238 by Muhammad I Ibn al-Ahmar, the founder of the Nasrid dynasty that ruled the Emirate of Granada. [12] Several palaces were built and expanded by his successors Muhammad II (r. 1273–1302) and Muhammad III (r. 1302–1309). [13]
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Alhambra construction begins. [4] 1309 ... Granada: Guia artistica e ...
The Spanish name Torre de la Cautiva, meaning 'Tower of the Captive (Lady)', is a "fanciful" name that does not have a historical reasoning. [2]: 58 The Arabic inscriptions inside the tower refer to it as the qalaḥurra, meaning a "tower palace" or a military tower used as a dwelling.