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Suggested Readings

Akbari, S.C. and K. Mallette (eds) (2013) A Sea of Languages: Rethinking the Arabic Role in
Medieval Literary History, Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Cooke, M., Göknar, E. and Parker, G. (eds) (2008) Mediterranean Passages: Readings from
Dido to Derrida, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
An anthology of readings from antiquity to the present, arranged both chronologically and
thematically.
Dodds, J.D., Menocal, M.R. and Krasner Balbale, A. (2008) The Arts of Intimacy: Christians,
Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture, New Haven: Yale University Press.
See especially chapter 6 (“Adab”) and the long corresponding bibliographical essay.
Mallette, K. (2005) The Kingdom of Sicily: A Literary History, 1100–1250, Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press.
Menocal, M.R., Scheindlin, R.P. and Sells, M. (eds) (2000) The Literature of Al-Andalus,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.