The Orient in Spain : converted Muslims, the forged lead books of Granada, and the rise of orientalism /

The Orient in Spain : converted Muslims, the forged lead books of Granada, and the rise of orientalism /

Taking as its main subject a series of notorious forgeries by Muslim converts in sixteenth-century Granada (including an apocryphal gospel in Arabic), this book studies the emotional, cultural and religious world view of the Morisco minority and the complexity of its identity, caught between the wis...

Full description

Saved in:

Main Author: García-Arenal, Mercedes.

Other Authors: Rodríguez Mediano, Fernando.

Format: eBook

Language: English
Spanish

Published: Leiden : Brill, 2013.

Series: Numen Book Series 142.
Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.

Subjects:

Abadía del Sacromonte (Granada, Spain) > History.
Moriscos > Spain > Granada > History > 16th century.
Forgery > Spain > Granada > History > 16th century.
Orientalism > Spain > History > 16th century.
Arabic language > Spain > History > 16th century.
HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal
Granada (Spain) > History > 16th century.
Granada (Spain) > Church history > 16th century.
Spain > Intellectual life > 1516-1700.
Spain > Historiography.

Online Access: Login to view Source

Tags: Add Tag

No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

Call Number: DP104 .G3713 2013eb

Save to List Photographic Request Become a member
Description
Summary:Taking as its main subject a series of notorious forgeries by Muslim converts in sixteenth-century Granada (including an apocryphal gospel in Arabic), this book studies the emotional, cultural and religious world view of the Morisco minority and the complexity of its identity, caught between the wish to respect Arabic cultural traditions, and the pressures of evangelization and efforts at integration into "Old Christian" society. Orientalist scholarship in Early Modern Spain, in which an interest in Oriental languages, mainly Arabic, was linked to important historiographical questions, such as the uses and value of Arabic sources and the problem of the integration of al-Andalus within a providentialist history of Spain, is also addressed. The authors consider these issues not only from a local point of view, but from a wider perspective, in an attempt to understand how these matters related to more general European intellectual and religious developments.
Item Description:Translation of: Un oriente español. Madrid : Marcial Pons Historia, 2010; corrected and expanded, with new research and a new bibliography.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 475 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004250291
ISSN:0169-8834 ;
Access:Available to subscribing member institutions only.