The present article proposes that we turn our attention to al-Ghassani's (d. 1707) Ri lat al-wazir fi iftikaki al-asir (The Journey of the Minister to Ransom the Captive) to trace some of the most original and thought-provoking literary and cultural manifestations of nostalgic/elegiac depictions of al-Andalus in Arabic-Islamic writing in the post-Reconquista era. R...