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LIST OF MAPS=xi

FOREWORD/HAROLD BLOOM=xiii

A NOTE ON TRANSLITERATIONS AND NON-ENGLISH NAMES=xvii

BEGINNINGS=3

A BRIEF HISTORY OF A FIRST-RATE PLACE=15

THE PALACES OF MEMORY=51

THE MOSQUE AND THE PALM TREE=53

Cordoba, 786

MOTHER TONGUES=66

Cordoba, 855

A GRAND VIZIER, A GRAND CITY=79

Cordoba, 949

THE GARDENS OF MEMORY=91

Madinat al-Zahra, South of Cordoba, 1009

VICTORIOUS IN EXILE=101

The Battlefield at Argona, Between Cordoba and Granada, 1041

LOVE AND ITS SONGS=112

Niebla, Just West of Seville, on the Road to Huelva, August 1064

Barbastro, in the Foothills of the Pyrenees, on the Road to Saragossa, August 1064

THE CHURCH AT THE TOP OF THE HILL=130

Toledo, 1085

AN ANDALUSIAN IN LONDON=147

Huesca, 1106

SAILING AWAY, RIDING AWAY=158

Alexandria, 1140

THE ABBOT AND THE QURAN=174

Cluny, 1142

GIFTS=189

Sicily, 1236

Cordoba, 1236

Granada, 1236

BANNED IN PARIS=201

Paris, 1277

VISIONS OF OTHER WORLDS=216

Avila, 1305

FOREIGN DIGNITARIES AT THE COURTS OF CASTILE=229

Seville, 1364

Toledo, 1364

IN THE ALHAMBRA=244

Granada, 1492

SOMEWHERE IN LA MANCHA=253

1605

EPILOGUE: ANDALUSIAN SHARDS=266

POSTSCRIPT=282

OTHER READINGS=284

THANKS=293

INDEX=299