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The Book of Disputation: A Mudejar Religious-Philosophical Treatise against Christians and Jews
A Study and Accompanying Text Edition
Series: - The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World, Volume: 84
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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 philosophyâlargely from Aristotle and Averroesâalong with more traditional revealed sources such as the QurʾÄn 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.
Honorable Mention (Best Edition & Translation) for The Mediterranean Seminar Prize for the Best Source Edition, Book Translation, or Essay Collection, 2025. Official The Mediterranean Seminar Prize announcement.
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.
Honorable Mention (Best Edition & Translation) for The Mediterranean Seminar Prize for the Best Source Edition, Book Translation, or Essay Collection, 2025. Official The Mediterranean Seminar Prize announcement.
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.
Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration, Conventions and Abbreviations
List of Figures
Introduction
â1âThe KM in the Production of Religious Polemics of Iberian Muslims
â2âCharacteristics of Mudejar Polemics
â3âThe Contents and Intellectual Milieu of the KM
â4âThe Authorâs Defence of Philosophy
â5âChapter Overview
1 A Scholarly Defence of Religious Excellence
â1âContested Claims to Noble Descent in Christian Iberia
â2ââGenerational Discontinuationâ in the KM
2 A Fourteenth-Century Mudejar Cosmology
â1âNatural Philosophy in the KM
â2âSections and Distribution of Sources on Philosophy in the KM
3 Harmony between Revelation and Philosophy: Towards an Identification of the Author of the KM
General Remarks
Language and Its Use in the Copy by ar-Raqilī
Diplomatic Text Edition
Appendix 1: Contents of The Book of Disputation
Appendix 2: Source Overview
Appendix 3: QurʾÄn Verses
Appendix 4: Bible Verses
Appendix 5: Words in Aljamiado
Bibliographical References
Index of Names and Places
Note on Transliteration, Conventions and Abbreviations
List of Figures
Introduction
â1âThe KM in the Production of Religious Polemics of Iberian Muslims
â2âCharacteristics of Mudejar Polemics
â3âThe Contents and Intellectual Milieu of the KM
â4âThe Authorâs Defence of Philosophy
â5âChapter Overview
Part 1 A Mudejar Microcosmos
1 A Scholarly Defence of Religious Excellence
â1âContested Claims to Noble Descent in Christian Iberia
â2ââGenerational Discontinuationâ in the KM
2 A Fourteenth-Century Mudejar Cosmology
â1âNatural Philosophy in the KM
â2âSections 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-Raqilī
Diplomatic Text Edition
Appendix 1: Contents of The Book of Disputation
Appendix 2: Source Overview
Appendix 3: QurʾÄn Verses
Appendix 4: Bible Verses
Appendix 5: Words in Aljamiado
Bibliographical References
Index of Names and Places
Specialists and those interested in the Mudejars and Moriscos, their socio-cultural history, thought, and practices of Islam, in particular, their interreligious polemics.