The Book of Disputation: A Mudejar Religious-Philosophical Treatise Against Christians and Jews

A Study and Accompanying Text Edition
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69561-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 84, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 575 g

Reihe: The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World

This is the first critical edition and study of a unique and important Muslim polemic against Christians and Jews. The Book of Disputation was written in Arabic by a Mudejar (subject Muslim living under Christian rule in late medieval Iberia) and offers new insight into the cultural and intellectual life of this Muslim minority. The text advances arguments drawn from natural philosophy—largely from Aristotle and Averroes—along with more traditional revealed sources such as the Qur'an and the Bible.

Mudejar communities suffered a diminution of religious and political intelligentsia over time. This text, however, highlights the author's particular conception of the world as the creation of God in his defense of Islam, demonstrates the vitality of intellectual life among Muslims in medieval Christian Iberia, and documents the continued cultivation of natural philosophy within these Muslim communities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Colominas Aparicio, Mònica

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Note on Transliteration, Conventions and Abbreviations

List of Figures

Introduction

1 The KM in the Production of Religious Polemics of Iberian Muslims

2 Characteristics of Mudejar Polemics

3 The Contents and Intellectual Milieu of the KM

4 The Author’s Defence of Philosophy

5 Chapter Overview

Part 1 A Mudejar Microcosmos

1 A Scholarly Defence of Religious Excellence

1 Contested Claims to Noble Descent in Christian Iberia

2 “Generational Discontinuation” in the KM

2 A Fourteenth-Century Mudejar Cosmology

1 Natural Philosophy in the KM

2 Sections and Distribution of Sources on Philosophy in the KM

3 Harmony between Revelation and Philosophy: Towards an Identification of the Author of the KM

Part 2 The Book of Disputation: A Diplomatic Text Edition

General Remarks

Language and Its Use in the Copy by ar-Raqili

Diplomatic Text Edition

Appendix 1: Contents of The Book of Disputation

Appendix 2: Source Overview

Appendix 3: Qur?an Verses

Appendix 4: Bible Verses

Appendix 5: Words in Aljamiado

Bibliographical References

Index of Names and Places

Über Autor(innen)

Mònica Colominas Aparicio, Ph.D. (2016) University of Groningen, is the author of The Religious Polemics of the Muslims of Late Medieval Iberia: Identity and Religious Authority in Mudejar Islam (Brill, 2018) and numerous other studies of religious minorities in pre-modern Iberia.