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listening to estopa and el canto del loco for enough hours brings back MemoriesTM so have santi in early 2000s / 90s spain vibes, ft a french man (belonging to @grapeautumn )

#hws fanart #hws spain #hws france #hws frain #losing my mind over how specific and iconic this is #he looks so... unemployed #el niño garrulo d mi corazón 🥺💕

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love the phrase 'methinks'. me does think. thinketh me do.

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Omg I want to read more al-Andalus research too, but I suspect much of it is not in English. Do you have any pointers?

Better late than never right??? (Feel free to bop my head with a stick, anon. I deserve it).

Even in English there is so much to read on Al-Andalus (and my original list was ridiculously long), so I made an abridged, more general version that covers the mainstream topics. Let me know if there’s any area/topic you’re specifically interested in, and I’ll find you something!

The links will redirect you to a Dropbox folder with the complete PDFs. Don’t ask me how I got them.

Visigothic Spain | 274 pages | The history of the Visigoths in Hispania up to the Umayyad conquest. A really fair analysis of the Visigothic legacy in the peninsula.

Muslim Spain and Portugal: A Political History of Al-Andalus | 359 pages | This is the book on Al-Andalus. Don’t let yourself be thrown off by the 'Political History' part. Hugh Kennedy goes much, much farther than that.

Caliphs and Kings | 327 pages | From the same author of Visigothic Spain. Another great overview of the Iberian Peninsula when it was divided between Christians and Muslims. Includes useful maps and genealogy trees.

War in the Iberian Peninsula | 353 pages | Military history of Iberia between 700 – 1600, each chapter dedicated to one kingdom.

The Almoravid and Almohad Empires | 398 pages | Important to read not just because these overlooked dynasties were part of Andalus’ history too, but also because it rebukes the very commonly accepted stereotype that paints the Berber empires as violent, barbaric, zealot oppressive invaders.

The Most Noble of People: Religious, Ethnic, and Gender Identity in Muslim Spain | 220 pages | A work of great importance if one wants to truly understand the vast diversity of Andalusi society, and how this diversity was controlled, exploited, and regulated in law and in practice. If you want to learn more about the social structure of Al-Andalus rather than all the political struggles surrounding it, read this instead of Kings and Caliphs.

Representing Others in Medieval Iberian Literature | 226 pages | Analyses of the era’s writings in regard to how ‘the Other’ was described and portrayed.

Christian Martyrs in Muslim Spain | 155 pages | I was a bit on the fence with this one, but I had to share something by Baxter Wolf, and I find the cases of Christian martyrdom in Al-Andalus incredibly fascinating and something worth learning about.

Conquerors, Brides, and Concubines: Interfaith Relations and Social Power in Medieval Iberia | 275 pages | Deals with the positions of women in a land under a constant state of war and the dynamics and implications of gender and power.

The Ring of the Dove | 38 pages | None other than Mr. Ibn Hazm’s perspectives, insights and poems on the Andalusi concept of hetero and homosexual love, affection and courtship and its sociopsychological effects. It’s a primary source but I have to include it because the ‘treatise on Arab love’ is cited very often by historians and academics when dealing with Al-Andalus (and as much as I loathe Ibn Hazm he trash-talked Al-Nasir a lot and I have to give him a shoutout).

Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain | 496 pages | HHHHHHHH OK listen I haven’t read it yet (it came out four years ago!) but it just sounds very very promising so uhhhh check it out?

Some extra stuff:

People In Muslim Spain: Muslims, Jews, Christians And Mozarabs | A very short, gentle, objective, and insightful first introduction into Andalusi society.

The Art of Islamic Spain | 464 pages | …. Pictures of pretty ceramics and jewelry and other artifacts…… but it’s also very informative, I promise.

Cities of Light | Your go-to website for all things Al-Andalus. Covers subjects like science, the arts, politics, and pretty much anything about you can imagine. Haven't checked out their documentary film yet. A bit orientalist and contains some false information but we stay coping!!!

The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise | 358 pages | Basically, a politically incorrect look back into Al-Andalus and its problematicness. I ranted about it before on the blog.

The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain | 315 pages | The most famous work on Al-Andalus and responsible for the orientalist, white-washed, idealized and almost downright fetishized portrayal of Al-Andalus which has become mainstream. Hrotsvitha is rolling in her grave.

These two latter books are antitheses of each other and both were written with an agenda I’m hesitating to call “insincere” … but when the truth is slyly occulted or twisted it’s made obvious that these works exist more to defend a specific political view than to inform or educate, but that’s exactly why I recommend reading them. Get ready for a lot of eye-rolling.

Aaaaannnd that's about it! I hope any of these help you out with your research on Al-Andalus, and again, if there's anything else you wanna know about Islamic Spain just lemme know!!

#resources #read later

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PORT BACK IN MANGA????

#hws portugal #couldnt pick a better moment to return to this app #hes such a whore 💕

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idk maybe domestic abuse trials shouldn’t be treated as entertainment

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My friend in France just told me about this and I thought to share it!

Earlier this month a graphic novel titled "Les Portugais" was published in France, and it's about the lives of the Portuguese refugees in Paris in the 60s and 70s.

"The story is also worthwhile for its documentary aspect, on a subject that has been little dealt with in comics up to now. We discover the daily life of men and women confronted with exile: the dirty tricks of the smugglers, the thankless job of the construction site managers, divided between the needs of their men and the interests of unscrupulous employers, the solidarity or, alternatively, the rivalry between the different immigrant communities."

It was released just a few days ago so it'll be difficult to get my hands on a copy, but it looks really promising!

#read later

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Argentina: When I was a teenager I left a trail of broken hearts like a rock star. I'm not proud of it.

Brazil: Yeah, bullshit. You're proud of it. You work it into a lot of conversations.

#brarg #lh brazil #lh argentina #latin hetalia

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ATTENTION

If you see this you are OBLIGATED to reblog w/ the song currently stuck in your head :)

#diablo #by rosalia

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Hi Carlita I'm so happy that you've returned!!!! I almost got a heart attack when I got the notification shsjdkdj 🥺 It's good to have you back and I hope you're doing well 😭💕💕

omg hi!! This message just made my day 🥰🥰

I'm doing great rn but I just had a major 'this is SO cringe' mental moment and deleted all my accounts (im so mad my fics are now orphaned hGSKSGSJ)... but it's nice to start all over. I was SO happy when I saw ur account was still active 🥺💖

Hope ur doing well too!!! 💕