Julián Ribera

Julián Ribera y Tarragó (Carcaixent, Valencia, 19 February 1858 2 May 1934, La Pobla Llarga, 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.[1]

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, although he began following the lead of his mentor Prof. Codera. He wrote on education[2] and on legal history.[3] In mid-course Ribera was influenced by the spirit of the generación del 98.[4] 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.[5] 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.[6]

Selected works

Books

Articles

Collections

Commentary

References

  1. Introductory notes by Emilio García Gómez in the 1985 reprint by Mayo de Oro, Madrid, of Ribera's La Música árabe y su influencia en la Española (Madrid 1927).
  2. La enseñanza entre los musulmanes españoles (1893); La superstición pedagógica (1910).
  3. E.g., Orígenes del Justicia de Aragón (Zaragoza: Comas 1897).
  4. Specifically his well-known articles signed with the anagram "Dr. Bráyer" in Revista de Aragón (1900-1905).
  5. Crowned by his La Música de las Cantigas (1922).
  6. 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).
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