The repairs were expected to cost $350,000, and funding was secured earlier this year. Horowhenua District Council project manager Tony Parsons said half of the work would be paid by the Foxton Beach Freeholding Account and the rest from the Horowhenua District Council and Horizons Regional Council. The Manawatū Marine Boat Club used the wharf frequently and would also fund some repair work. Local contractor Caldow Builders would complete the work and Horowhenua District Council’s Infrastructure Development Group would manage the project. They would be on-site from next week. Up to 800 tonnes of rock would strengthen the wharf and help prevent storm damage for many years.
Iberian Moorings compares Muslim and Jewish golden ages
Known to Jews, Muslims, and Christians by three different names – Sefarad, al-Andalus, and Hispania, respectively – the Iberian Peninsula has been a centre of fertile intellectual, cultural and spiritual production for multiple religious traditions.
In his new book Iberian Moorings , Ross Brann, Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, compares the histories of the Jewish and Muslim traditions in the Iberian Peninsula between the tenth and thirteenth centuries, tracing how Islamic al-Andalus and Jewish Sefarad were invested with special political, cultural and historical significance across the Middle Ages.
May 3, 2021
Known to Jews, Muslims, and Christians by three different names – Sefarad, al-Andalus, and Hispania, respectively – the Iberian Peninsula has been a center of fertile intellectual, cultural and spiritual production for multiple religious traditions.
Iberian Moorings
In his new book “Iberian Moorings,” Ross Brann, Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, compares the histories of the Jewish and Muslim traditions in the Iberian Peninsula between the tenth and thirteenth centuries, tracing how Islamic al-Andalus and Jewish Sefarad were invested with special political, cultural and historical significance across the Middle Ages.
For centuries, Brann wrote, scholars have celebrated the “Islamic Spain” of the medieval period and a “Golden Age of the Jews of Spain” during the same time.