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...

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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.

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Call Number: DP104 .G3713 2013eb

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Mercedes García-Arenal and Fernando Rodríguez Mediano
  • Introduction /
  • Mercedes García-Arenal and Fernando Rodríguez Mediano
  • 1 The Sacromonte Lead Books: The Events /
  • Mercedes García-Arenal and Fernando Rodríguez Mediano
  • 2 Granada Conquered: Castilianization and Conversion /
  • Mercedes García-Arenal and Fernando Rodríguez Mediano
  • 3 The Noble Families /
  • Mercedes García-Arenal and Fernando Rodríguez Mediano
  • 4 Alonso del Castillo: Translator, Author? /
  • Mercedes García-Arenal and Fernando Rodríguez Mediano
  • 5 Alonso del Castillo's Friends: Priests, Soldiers, Interpreters /
  • Mercedes García-Arenal and Fernando Rodríguez Mediano
  • 6 Diego Bejarano Al-Ḥajarī and the Morisco Understanding of the Lead Books /
  • Mercedes García-Arenal and Fernando Rodríguez Mediano
  • 7 Miguel de Luna: Historian, Novelist, Physician /
  • Mercedes García-Arenal and Fernando Rodríguez Mediano
  • 8 Miguel de Luna: Translator, Apologist, Author /
  • Mercedes García-Arenal and Fernando Rodríguez Mediano
  • 9 Jerónimo Román de la Higuera: The False Chronicles and the Sacromonte Lead Books /
  • Mercedes García-Arenal and Fernando Rodríguez Mediano
  • 10 Diego de Urrea /
  • Mercedes García-Arenal and Fernando Rodríguez Mediano
  • 11 Marcos Dobelio /
  • Mercedes García-Arenal and Fernando Rodríguez Mediano
  • 12 Marcos Dobelio and the Books from Pastrana: The Islamic Content of the Lead Books /
  • Mercedes García-Arenal and Fernando Rodríguez Mediano
  • 13 Is The Arabic of the Lead Books the Language of Islam? /
  • Mercedes García-Arenal and Fernando Rodríguez Mediano
  • 14 Father Tomás de León and the Marquis of Mondéjar: A Learned Correspondence /
  • Mercedes García-Arenal and Fernando Rodríguez Mediano
  • 15 The Arabic Language and Orientalism in Spain /
  • Mercedes García-Arenal and Fernando Rodríguez Mediano
  • 16 Al-Andalus in the History of Spain /
  • Mercedes García-Arenal and Fernando Rodríguez Mediano
  • 17 The Arabic Language as a Tool for Scholarship /
  • Mercedes García-Arenal and Fernando Rodríguez Mediano
  • 18 The Orient in Spain /
  • Mercedes García-Arenal and Fernando Rodríguez Mediano
  • Epilogue /
  • Mercedes García-Arenal and Fernando Rodríguez Mediano
  • Sources and Bibliography /
  • Mercedes García-Arenal and Fernando Rodríguez Mediano
  • Illustrations /
  • Mercedes García-Arenal and Fernando Rodríguez Mediano
  • Index of Persons /
  • Mercedes García-Arenal and Fernando Rodríguez Mediano
  • Index of Places /
  • Mercedes García-Arenal and Fernando Rodríguez Mediano.