Julián Ribera y Tarragó (
Carcaixent,
Valencia, 19 February 1858 – 2 May 1934,
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,
Valencia) was a Spanish Arabist and academic.
Career
Ribera studied under Prof.
Francisco Codera y Zaidín at Madrid from 1882 to 1885. In 1887 at age 29 he became ''catedrático'' (full professor) of Arabic at the
University of Zaragoza. There Prof. Ribera founded the ''Revista de Aragón''. Later, in Madrid he co-founded (with
Miguel Asín Palacios) the journal ''Cultura Española'' (1906–1909). He had transferred from Zaragoza to become ''catedrático'' of History at the
University of Madrid, then of Literature in 1913. Prof. Ribera and his former student Prof. Asín collaborated on various academic projects. His career was celebrated by his peers in his ''Jubilación'' of 1927. When Prof. Ribera retired, his chair was taken by Ángel González Palencia.
Studies
Ribera's work focused on the Islamic culture of
Al-Andalus and its legacy in
Spain. He would eventually take several new approaches to
Arabic studies
Arab studies or Arabic studies is an academic discipline centered on the study of Arabs and Arab World. It consists of several disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, linguistics, historiography, archaeology, cultural studies, econom ...
, although he began following the lead of his mentor Prof. Codera. He wrote on
education and on
legal history. In mid-course Ribera was influenced by the spirit of the
generación del 98 The Generation of '98 ( es, Generación del 98), also called Generation of 1898 ( es, Generación de 1898, links=no), was a group of novelists, poets, essayists, and philosophers active in Spain at the time of the Spanish–American War (1898), comm ...
. Later his interest was directed to investigating the rich heritage of
Arabic music and
poetry in Al Andalus, and the extent of its influence on subsequent
Spanish literature and
music, as well as on that of other European countries. Subtle interconnections and relationships were revealed and discussed by Prof. Ribera. He was at the cutting edge of work in this area, which has since grown into a large corpus of academic studies.
[Asín Palacios, "Introducción" to Ribera, ''Disertaciones y Opúsculos'' (1928), at xv-cxvi; Monroe, ''Islam and the Arabs in Spanish Scholarship'' (1970), at Chapter VI, pages 151-173, i.e., "Julián Ribera y Tarragó"; Emilio García Gómez in the 1985 reprint published by Mayo de Oro, Madrid, of Ribera's ''La Música árabe y su influencia en la Española'' (Madrid 1927).]
Selected works
Books
*''La enseñanza entre los musulmanos españoles'' (Zaragoza: Ariño 1893; Academia de Córdoba 1925).
*''Orígenes del Justicia de
Aragón'' (Zaragoza: Comas 1897).
*''Historia de los jueces de
Córdoba por Aljoxaní'' (Madrid: Centro de Estudios Históricos 1914), an annotated translation of the ''Kitab Qudat Qurtuba'' by
al-Khushani, of Afriqiya (
Tunisia), who became a judge in
Al Andalus
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under the
Almoravid regime (1086–1170).
*''El cancionero de Abencuzmán'' (Madrid: Imprenta de Estanislao Maestre 1914), a study of the ''Diwan'' of the poet Ibn Quzman of Córdoba (circa 1078-1160), in comparison with later European verse.
*''Épica Andaluza Romanceada'' (Madrid: Real Academia de la Historia 1915).
*''La música de las Cantigas. Estudio sobre su origen y naturaleza'' (Madrid 1922). Translated and abridged by Hague and Leffingwell as ''Music in Ancient Arabia and Spain'' (Stanford University 1929).
*''La música árabe y su influencia en la española'' (Madrid 1927), popular version of his ''La música de las Cantigas'' of 1922; reprinted in Madrid by Mayo de Oro, 1985.
Articles
*"Orígenes de la filosofía de
Raimundo Lulio
Ramon Llull (; c. 1232 – c. 1315/16) was a philosopher, theologian, poet, missionary, and Christian apologist from the Kingdom of Majorca.
He invented a philosophical system known as the ''Art'', conceived as a type of universal logic to p ...
" in ''Homenaje a Menéndez y Palayo'' (Madrid 1899), at II: 191-216.
*"Origen del colegio Nidamí de
Bagdad" in ''Homenaje a D. Francisco Codera'' (Zaragoza: Escar 1904), at 3-17.
*"El arabista español" (Real Academia Española, 1919).
Collections
*''Disertaciones y Opúsculos. Edición colectiva que en su jubilación del profesorado le oferecen sus discípulos y amigos'' (Madrid: Imprenta de Estanislao Maestre 1928), 2 volumes.
*''Opúsculos dispersos'' (Tetuán 1952).
Commentary
*
Miguel Asín Palacios, "Introducción" to the ''Disertaciones y Opúsculos'' of Prof. Ribera (Madrid 1928), at I: xv-cxvi.
*
James T. Monroe
James Thomas Monroe, or James T. Monroe, is an American scholar and translator of Arabic. He is emeritus professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, University of California at Berkeley, focusing on Cla ...
, ''Islam and the Arabs in Spanish Scholarship. Sixteenth century to the present'' (Leiden: E.J.Brill 1970
Reprint, Cambridge: ILEX Editions/Harvard UP 2021, at Chapter VI: "Julián Ribera y Tarragó" (pages 151-173).
*Andrea Celli, ''Figure della relazione. Il Medioevo in Asín Palacios e nell'arabismo spagnolo'' (Roma: Carocci 2005), at Chapter I: "L'Europa degli arabi. Tra filologia e Medioevo di Spagna" (pages 15-87)
References
External links
*
''Julián Ribera y Tarragó'' at Wikipedia in Spanish.
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Academic staff of the University of Zaragoza
Spanish orientalists
Spanish Arabists
Comparative literature academics
Non-Muslim scholars of Islam
Spanish literary historians
1934 deaths
1858 births