Mirrors of Paradise - ACE246.6

Member of the group El Trovo del Candiota, village musicians from the Albpujarras, an talks about how he learned to play the violin. Group plays and sings. Man explains the tradition of their music which stems from the Moors. A pottery. Man throwing pot on a foot-driven wheel. Examples of much older pieces. Work from the pottery. Salma Jayyusi reads poem in Arabic at the Granada conference. "… God’s peace I send you/ For as long as the sweet love lasts." Jayyusi talks about this 11th century poem, Nuniyya, by Ibn Zaydun of Córdoba. Poem about a river. Unidentified woman writes out and reads a poem in praise of al-Andaluz by Ibn Khafaja in the same script as was used by the women copyists who worked for private individuals and for the libraries in Córdoba. Manuscript. Koran. She describes the cultural and religious importance of writing.