Granada falls and the Andalusi repertoire crosses to the Maghreb
The end of the last Islamic polity in Iberia, followed over the next century by expulsions of Muslim and then Morisco populations, drives Andalusi families — musicians among them — across the strait into North Africa. The nūba repertoire is maintained thereafter in Fez, Tlemcen, Algiers, Tunis and elsewhere, under the names ala, ṣanʿa and maʾlūf, while the institutional tradition ends in Iberia itself. The transmission runs south at the same moment that the Atlantic crossings begin to run west.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- The Andalusi nūba · cultural practice · Maghreb — Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya · not located
- Andalusia and al-Andalus · region · Spain · not located
- Oud · artefact · Southwest Asia, North Africa and the Mediterranean · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
Dwight Reynolds on al-Andalus: North Africa and Beyond
The Andalusi nūba tradition developed in al-Andalus between the ninth and fifteenth centuries and survives in the Maghreb as ala in Morocco, ṣanʿa in Algeria and maʾlūf in Tunisia and Libya, carried there by musicians and families displaced after 1492. V55 verification basis: retrieved in search summary blending this interview with encyclopaedic reference entries; the interview was not listened to or read in full and the attribution of each element to Reynolds specifically is not established.
Afropop Worldwide (interview with Dwight Reynolds, University of California, Santa Barbara), with corroborating reference accounts of Andalusi classical music · Partly verified
afropop.org interview series on al-Andalus; and general reference entries on Andalusi classical music
Recorded on The Andalusi nūba
- A European lute is depicted in the Libro de los juegos
- Granada falls and the Andalusi repertoire crosses to the Maghreb
Related
Related because they share a subject in the Atlas — never because the text looks similar.