caa a22 4500 388101644 CHVBK 20180307125323.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199905 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0020743800054039 doi S0020743800054039 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0020743800054039 Noorani Yaseen The Lost Garden of Al-Andalus: Islamic Spain and the Poetic Inversion of Colonialism [Elektronische Daten] [Yaseen Noorani] In 1933, the Urdu and Persian poet Muhammad Iqbal (1873-1938) became the first Muslim to worship in the mosque of Cordoba since its conversion into a cathedral after the Moors were expelled from Spain in 1492. Iqbal had gone to London as a delegate to the third roundtable conference on the political future of India. On his return, he was invited to lecture in Madrid by the Orientalist Asin Palacios, and took the opportunity to visit the monument. Dramatizing the symbolic significance of his visit to the mosque, Iqbal swooned upon entering and uttered verses that presumably came to be included in his celebrated Urdu poem "Masjid-i Qurtubah”. Some years before, in 1919, the Egyptian Arabic poet Ahmad Shawqi (1868-1932) ended his five-year exile in Spain with a similar visit to the Andalusian monuments, albeit with less dramatic fanfare. Nevertheless, Shawqi as well was accompanied by his muse. In the introduction to his own famous poem about Islamic Spain, the "Siniyyah”, Shawqi recounts how the embryonic verses of this poem came to him as he toured the mosque and the Alhambra of Granada. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 International Journal of Middle East Studies Cambridge University Press 31/2(1999-05), 237-254 0020-7438 31:2<237 1999 31 MES https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743800054039 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743800054039 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Noorani Yaseen NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Middle East Studies Cambridge University Press 31/2(1999-05), 237-254 0020-7438 31:2<237 1999 31 MES CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge