Arabic-L:LIT:Source of anecdote

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Date:  27 Mar 2002
From:Martha Schulte-Nafeh <marthas at u.arizona.edu>
Subject:Source of anecdote

I have no idea as to the authenticity of the story but it is reported in
Aramco World magazine March/April 1999 issue in the article "Touring
Al-Andalus" on page 31. It is reported with the words "it is said that
....." which suggests a bit of a hedge on the writer's part in terms of
belief in the story.
Peace,
martha

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Date:  27 Mar 2002
From:Paul Auchterlonie <J.P.C.Auchterlonie at exeter.ac.uk>
Subject:Source of anecdote

The story as you remember it is taken almost word for word from
Stanley Lane-Poole's The Moors in Spain, chapter 13, the Fall of
Granada. Lane-Poole himself gives no details of his source.
Paul Auchterlonie

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Date:  27 Mar 2002
From:Paul Stevens <pstevens at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:Source of anecdote

Daniel,

I can't tell you whether the quote is genuine or where it comes from,
but a slightly different version is cited on the opening page of the
Puerto Rican novel "Happy Days, Uncle Sergio" by Magali Garcia Ramis:
"And his mother said to Boabdil, the last Moorish king of Granada, 'You
cry like a child for what you did not know how to defend as a man', a
saying repeated to us as children, every time we showed the slightest
hint of cowardice."
I hope this helps.
Paul Stevens,
American University in Cairo

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