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Cover illustration: Mudejar coffered ceiling of the Cathedral of Santa María de Mediavilla in Teruel (Aragon), detail. © Photo: Mònica Colominas Aparicio.
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Names: Colominas Aparicio, Mònica, author.
Title: The book of disputation : a Mudejar religious-philosophical treatiseagainst Christians and Jews : a study and an accompanying text edition /by Mònica Colominas Aparicio.
Other titles: Kitāb al-mujādalah maʻa al-Yahūd wa-al-Naṣārá.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024. | Series: The medieval andearly modern Iberian world, 1569–1934 ; 84 | Includes bibliographicalreferences and index. | In English, with text in Arabic. | Summary:“Muslims, Christians, and Jews throughout the Mediterranean but especially in medieval Iberia engaged in polemic and disputation. The Arabic text, The Book of Disputation, edited and studied here is doubly important: it is written by a Mudejar (subject Muslim living under Christian rule in Iberia) and it thoroughly engages with natural philosophy, demonstrating the continued vitality of Muslim intellectual life in late medieval Iberia”–Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2024014581 (print) | LCCN 2024014582 (ebook) | ISBN9789004695610 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004695627 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Islam–Relations–Christianity. | Christianity and otherreligions–Islam. | Islam–Relations–Judaism. |Judaism–Relations–Islam. | Christianity–Controversialliterature–Early works to 1800. | Judaism–Controversialliterature–Early works to 1800.
Classification: LCC BP172 .C5353 2024 (print) | LCC BP172 (ebook) | DDC297.2/82–dc23/eng/20240402
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ISSN 1569-1934
ISBN 978-90-04-69561-0 (hardback)
ISBN 978-90-04-69562-7 (e-book)
DOI 10.1163/9789004695627
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