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Presentation of the Book "The Sultanas of the Alhambra"
From September 04, 2013 until September 26, 2013
With the cooperation of the Board of Trustees of the Alhambra and Generalife and the Editorial Comares publishing firm, we will be presenting the book "The Sultanas of the Alhambra: The Great Unknowns of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada (13th-15th centuries)" by Bárbara Boloix Gallardo, on the upcoming date of Thursday, September 26.
This is the first study dedicated solely and exclusively to the women of the Nasrid dynasty, a group which has remained relegated to silence and oblivion. Based on an analysis of medieval Arab and Christian sources, it constitutes and attempt to reveal information to readers which few people were aware of up to now, including the names and personalities of these princesses, how they lived their lives, the influence which some of them came to hold in Granada’s politics and the intrigue which took place to ensure the rise to power by their sons. The scope of their social status and their legal abilities, and the official treatments which they received are other topics covered by this study, which ends by describing the spaces they inhabited and their last dwellings. It is an overview of Nasrid history through the eyes of its women. Participating in the event will be Eduardo López Busquets, General Director of Casa Árabe, Bárbara Boloix, the book’s author, and Maria del Mar Villafranca, the Director of the Board of Trustees of the Alhambra and Generalife. The presentation will take place at 7:00 p.m. at the Casa Árabe Auditorium in Madrid (at Calle Alcalá, 62). Free entrance until the room’s capacity is reached.
Born in Granada in 1978, Ms. Boloix is an Arabist and European Doctor of the History of Al-Andalus from the University of Granada and the University of London (2007). Her main line of research has focused on studying the history of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada (1232-1492), a topic to which she has dedicated many publications of various types, including the monographic work “From the Taifa of Arjona to the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada” (“De la Taifa de Arjona al Reino Nazarí de Granada,” Jaén, 2006), the translation of “Wonders of the Sufi Master Abu Marwan al-Yuhanisi” (“Prodigios del maestro sufí Abu Marwan al-Yuhanisi,” Madrid, 2010), or chapters such as “The Genealogical Legitimization of the Nasrid Dynasty (13th-15th centuries): The Alleged and Origins of the Banu Nasr” (Oxford, 2013). She has also taken part in various congresses of both a national scope (Salamanca, Madrid and Granada) and international scope, in Cairo, Tunis, Casablanca (Morocco), Corfu (Greece), Cambridge (United Kingdom), Liege (Belgium), and St. Louis and Kalamazoo (United States).
Her research work has led her to complete research stays at institutions in the Arab world (Al-Manar University in Tunisia and the University of Cairo in Egypt), as well as American universities (University of Puerto Rico and Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri) and European universities (University of London).
As for her work in teaching, she has been an instructor at the University of Granada, where she has taught classes on Arab Literature, Arab and Islamic History and Culture, Arab Paleography and the Lexicon of Arab Chronicles, as well as at the University of Washington in St. Louis, where she has given courses on the History of Al-Andalus.
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Bárbara Boloix Gallardo
Born in Granada in 1978, Ms. Boloix is an Arabist and European Doctor of the History of Al-Andalus from the University of Granada and the University of London (2007). Her main line of research has focused on studying the history of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada (1232-1492), a topic to which she has dedicated many publications of various types, including the monographic work “From the Taifa of Arjona to the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada” (“De la Taifa de Arjona al Reino Nazarí de Granada,” Jaén, 2006), the translation of “Wonders of the Sufi Master Abu Marwan al-Yuhanisi” (“Prodigios del maestro sufí Abu Marwan al-Yuhanisi,” Madrid, 2010), or chapters such as “The Genealogical Legitimization of the Nasrid Dynasty (13th-15th centuries): The Alleged and Origins of the Banu Nasr” (Oxford, 2013). She has also taken part in various congresses of both a national scope (Salamanca, Madrid and Granada) and international scope, in Cairo, Tunis, Casablanca (Morocco), Corfu (Greece), Cambridge (United Kingdom), Liege (Belgium), and St. Louis and Kalamazoo (United States).
Her research work has led her to complete research stays at institutions in the Arab world (Al-Manar University in Tunisia and the University of Cairo in Egypt), as well as American universities (University of Puerto Rico and Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri) and European universities (University of London).
As for her work in teaching, she has been an instructor at the University of Granada, where she has taught classes on Arab Literature, Arab and Islamic History and Culture, Arab Paleography and the Lexicon of Arab Chronicles, as well as at the University of Washington in St. Louis, where she has given courses on the History of Al-Andalus.
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