The Cultural Enviroment Rodríguez Gómez, María Dolores Al-Andalus Reino nazarí Cultura Granada Nasrid Kingdom Culture It is no easy task to condense in just a few pages the intellectual and cultural life of a State that lasted for more than two and a half centuries, especially since its territory was so complex and so open to external influences: from the cultured and refined Islamic East, the rising Maghreb with its strong Berber component, and the Christian world that wavered between admiration and distrust. In this essay we will concentrate on some specialties that drew the attention of the intellectual elite of the region and other areas of the Islamic world, as the Education; Linguistic Studies, Sufism, and the Biobibliographic Genre; Historical and Geographical Texts and Travel Literature. This study concludes that the Emirate of Granada was a focal point for intellectuals from other parts of the Islamic world. 2026-02-20T11:49:29Z 2026-02-20T11:49:29Z 2020 book part “The Cultural Enviroment”, en Adela Fábregas (ed.), The Nasrid Kingdom of Granada between East and West (Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries), trad. Consuelo López-Morillas, Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, Volume: 148, Leiden: Brill, 2020, pp. 368-392. ISBNe: 978-90-04-44359-4. ISBN: 978-90-04-44234-4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004443594_016 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/111311 https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004443594_016 eng Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East;148 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ embargoed access Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Brill