The Religious Polemics of the Muslims of Late Medieval Christian Iberia: Identity and Religious Authority in Mudejar Islam

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-34635-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 64, 398 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 717 g

Reihe: Medieval and Early Modern Iber

The Religious Polemics of the Muslims of Late Medieval Christian Iberia examines the corpus of polemical literature against the Christians and the Jews of the protected Muslims (Mudejars). Commonly portrayed as communities in cultural and religious decay, Mònica Colominas convincingly proves that the discourses against the Christians and the Jews in Mudejar treatises provided authoritative frameworks of Islamic normativity which helped to legitimize the residence of their communities in the Christian territories. Colominas argues that, while the primary aim of the polemics was to refute the views of their religious opponents, Mudejar treatises were also a tool used to advance Islamic knowledge and to strengthen the government and social cohesion of their communities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Colominas Aparicio, Mònica

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: 7. - 14. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Note on Transliteration, Conventions and Abbreviations

Introduction
Mudejar Polemics
Scholarship on the Mudejars and Their Literature
Main Questions and Chapter Overview

1 The Connection between Religious Polemics and Notions of Identity and Religious Authority among the Mudejars
Introduction
1.1 The Sacred Law, or Shari?a
1.2 The Relationship of the Mudejars with Jews and Christians
1.3 The Mudejar Aljamas
Conclusions

2 Concepts and Methods for the Study of Religious Authority and Identity in the Religious Polemics of the Mudejars
Introduction
2.1 Recent Approaches to Religious Polemics
2.2 Towards a Definition of Mudejar Polemics
2.3 Theoretical Framework and Methods
Conclusions

3 Previous Research and Identification of the Mudejar Polemical Sources to be Discussed in the Present Study
3.1 Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Scholarly Views on Mudejar Manuscripts of Religious Polemics
3.2 Mudejar Polemical Sources
3.3 The Sources of the Kitab al-Mujadala
3.4 The Place of the Copying of the Kitab al-Mujadala: The Geographical Location of Pi?rula
Conclusions

4 Muslim Literature of Religious Polemics
Introduction
4.1 al-Andalus
4.2 Christian Iberia
4.3 The Maghreb
4.4 The Mashriq
Conclusions

5 Mudejar Polemics with the Jews
Introduction
5.1 The Ta?yid
5.2 The Kitab al-Mujadala
5.3 The “demandas” [Questions]
Conclusions

6 Mudejar Polemics with the Christians
Introduction
6.1 The Kitab al-Mujadala
6.2 Religious Authority in the Kitab al-Mujadala
6.3 An Ethical-Centred Model for Islam in the Kitab al-Mujadala
6.4 Political Philosophy in the Kitab al-Mujadala
Conclusions

7 Mudejar Polemics as a Discursive Tradition
Introduction
7.1 Mudejar Identity in Polemics
7.2 Religious Leadership
7.3 Notions of Minority Identity and Government among the Mudejars
Conclusions

Conclusions

Manuscript Description of the Kitab al-Mujadala (MS AF 58)
Codicological Description
Bibliography
Source Overview

Annex

MS BNE 4944, ff. 1r–36r: Transcription and Rendering into Modern Spanish
MS L 536, ff. 123v–125r: Transcription and Rendering into Modern Spanish
References
Index of Names and Places

Über Autor(innen)

Mònica Colominas Aparicio, Ph.D. (2016), University of Amsterdam, is Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (Department I), and a core member of the Institute's interdisciplinary project Convivencia: Iberian to Global Dynamics, 500-1750.