Christina Civantos is Associate Professor of Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami and the author of Between Argentines and Arabs: Argentine Orientalism, Arab Immigrants, and the Writing of Identity, also published by SUNY Press.

Preface and Acknowledgments
Notes on Transliteration, Translation, and Terminology
Introduction: Shared Legacies and Connected Histories

Part I: Cultural (Un)Translatability and Narratives of Identity In Representations of Ibn Rushd/Averroes
1. Borges and His Arab Interlocutors: Orientalism, Translation, and Epistemology
2. Ibn Rushd and Freedom of Expression: The Construction and Fragmentation of Identity Narratives

Part II: To and from al-Andalus: Migration and Coloniality
3. The Migration of a Hero: The Construction and Deconstruction of Tariq Ibn Ziyad
4. Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad XII (Boabdil) and Other Migrants
Coda: Columbus and Coloniality

Part III: Florinda, Wallada, and "Scheherazade," Or The Women of al-Andalus and the Stories They Tell
5. Florinda and Wallada: Subjugation, Seduction, and Textual Transformation
6. Scheherazade: al-Andalus As Seduction and As Story

Conclusion: Re-Weaving Narratives of al-Andalus, Identity, and Tolerance
Notes
Bibliography
Index