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The Religious Polemics of the Muslims of Late Medieval Christian Iberia
Identity and Religious Authority in Mudejar Islam
Series: - The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World, Volume: 64
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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.
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.
Acknowledgments List of Figures Note on Transliteration, Conventions and Abbreviations Introduction âMudejar Polemics âScholarship on the Mudejars and Their Literature âMain Questions and Chapter Overview 1 The Connection between Religious Polemics and Notions of Identity and Religious Authority among the Mudejars âIntroduction â1.1âThe Sacred Law, or SharÄ«Ê¿a â1.2âThe Relationship of the Mudejars with Jews and Christians â1.3âThe Mudejar Aljamas âConclusions 2 Concepts and Methods for the Study of Religious Authority and Identity in the Religious Polemics of the Mudejars âIntroduction â2.1âRecent Approaches to Religious Polemics â2.2âTowards a Definition of Mudejar Polemics â2.3âTheoretical Framework and Methods âConclusions 3 Previous Research and Identification of the Mudejar Polemical Sources to be Discussed in the Present Study â3.1âTwentieth- and Twenty-First Century Scholarly Views on Mudejar Manuscripts of Religious Polemics â3.2âMudejar Polemical Sources â3.3âThe Sources of the KitÄb al-MujÄdala â3.4âThe Place of the Copying of the KitÄb al-MujÄdala: The Geographical Location of Piá¹rÅ«la âConclusions 4 Muslim Literature of Religious Polemics âIntroduction â4.1âal-Andalus â4.2âChristian Iberia â4.3âThe Maghreb â4.4âThe Mashriq âConclusions 5 Mudejar Polemics with the Jews âIntroduction â5.1âThe TaʾyÄ«d â5.2âThe KitÄb al-MujÄdala â5.3âThe âdemandasâ [Questions] âConclusions 6 Mudejar Polemics with the Christians âIntroduction â6.1âThe KitÄb al-MujÄdala â6.2âReligious Authority in the KitÄb al-MujÄdala â6.3âAn Ethical-Centred Model for Islam in the KitÄb al-MujÄdala â6.4âPolitical Philosophy in the KitÄb al-MujÄdala âConclusions 7 Mudejar Polemics as a Discursive Tradition âIntroduction â7.1âMudejar Identity in Polemics â7.2âReligious Leadership â7.3âNotions of Minority Identity and Government among the Mudejars âConclusions Conclusions Manuscript Description of the KitÄb al-MujÄdala (MS AF 58) âCodicological Description âBibliography âSource Overview
Annex
MS BNE 4944, ff. 1râ36r: Transcription and Rendering into Modern Spanish MS L 536, ff. 123vâ125r: Transcription and Rendering into Modern Spanish References Index of Names and Places
All interested in Muslims and religion in the Iberian Peninsula, and anyone concerned with the history of Spain and interreligious contacts between Muslims, Christians and Jews in the Christian territories.