Islamic Literature In Spanish And Aljamiado

Author : Gerard Albert Wiegers
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004099364
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islamic Literature in Spanish and Aljamiado written by Gerard Albert Wiegers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1994 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a study of Islam in medieval Christian Spain, focussing on the Mudejar religious authority Yca Gidelli (fl. 1450) and his Islamic writings in Spanish. On the basis of published and unpublished sources in Spanish and Arabic, it sheds new light on the religious history of the Muslim minorities.

Author : Gerard Wiegers
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004624236
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islamic Literature in Spanish and Aljamiado written by Gerard Wiegers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important work is an historical study of the Islamic writings in Spanish and Aljamiado (Spanish in Arabic script) of the Muslim minorities in medieval Christian Spain, the Mudejars and Moriscos. On the basis of both Christian sources, such as archival documents and the writings of John of Segovia, and Islamic sources in Spanish and Arabic, this book focuses on the life and writings of Yça Gidelli (ca 1450), religious authority of the Mudejar community of Segovia (Castile). Of crucial importance for the history of Islamic Spanish literature, Yça's best-known work is a Spanish translation of the Qur’ān made at the request of bishop John of Segovia (d. 1458). This study follows the early history of Islamic writings in the vernacular (13th-14th centuries), continues with a description of Yça's writings and biography, and finally deals with his influence on Moriscos in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Author : Luce López Baralt
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004094604
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam in Spanish Literature written by Luce López Baralt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1992 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping reinterpretation of Spanish literature, showing the great debts to Arab culture that Spain incurred through the 800 years of Islamic presence in Iberia. By so doing it redefines the ground of the study of Spanish literature.

Author : Emir Cruz Fernández
Publisher : Al-Hikmah Tutoring Services, LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muslims of Spain written by Emir Cruz Fernández and published by Al-Hikmah Tutoring Services, LLC. This book was released on with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every romantic retelling, there is a much more complex reality... If you have always been captivated by the Spanish Golden Age, you may be familiar with Maurofilia literature – a fictitious, stylized, and romantic portrayal of the Moorish people and culture written from a Catholic perspective. Far less well-known is Aljamiado literature… another genre that sprang up during the Spanish Golden Age, which pairs beautifully with Maurofilia literature and affords us a deeper understanding of what was happening at the time. While Maurofilia literature romanticizes the experience of the Moors, Aljamiado literature focuses on the much more difficult reality of the Moorish experience in an intolerant and restrictive Catholic society. This gritty, realism-focused genre was vital to the Moorish community at the time. It demonstrates their resilience as they fought to preserve their religious, social, and cultural identity in a predominantly Catholic society. You now have a unique opportunity to see past the romanticized depiction of the Moorish people in Maurofilia literature and glimpse how those people viewed themselves. Through his thorough and focused research, Professor Emir Cruz Fernández will give you a panoramic view of the Muslim experience during the Spanish Golden Age. Inside this fascinating and insightful work, you will discover: ● A background to Aljamiado studies (so you have a complete understanding of how the texts emerged) ● The key characteristics of Aljamiado literature – and how it gives us a deeper insight into the reality of the time ● Significant insight is taken from scholars of Islam ● A fuller understanding of one of the most reproduced and widely read works by Spanish crypto- Muslims of the 16th century ● The role of The Mi'rāj in Muslim tradition ● How Aljamiado literature shines a light on a broader picture of the human experience ● Insightful analysis and translation of significant parts of crucial texts in Aljamiado literature And much more. There is always another layer… And you are about to uncover a genuinely fascinating one. Deepen your understanding of literature during the Golden Age of Spain.

Author : Luce Lopez-Baralt
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004661549
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam in Spanish Literature written by Luce Lopez-Baralt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islam in Spanish Literature is a sweeping reinterpretation of Spanish literature, taking as its given the enormous debt to Arab culture that Spain incurred through the eight centuries of Islamic presence on the Iberian Peninsula. This volume takes up the thread of the work of the Arabist Miguel Asín Palacios, the first to comment extensively upon the marked Islamic features in many Spanish classics. After an initial survey of the presence of Islam and Judaism in Spanish history and culture, succeeding chapters explore the Muslim context of Juan Ruiz, the author of the Libro de buen amor; St John of the Cross; St Teresa de Jesus; the anonymous sonnet "No me mueve, mi Dios"; aljamiado-morisco literature and then "official" Moorophile literature, standing in such dramatic contrast to one another; and last, the novelist Juan Goytisolo, who, writing today, continues to reflect upon the impact of the East on Spanish culture. It is no exaggeration to state that this book redefines the ground of the study of Spanish literature; it will be hard for the contemporary reader ever again to read it with innocence, as a literature exclusively "European."

Author : Emir Cruz Fernández
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muslim of Spain written by Emir Cruz Fernández and published by . This book was released on 2023-02-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the genres cultivated during the Spanish Golden Age (1492-1659), the genre of literary Maurofilia stands out. Maurofilia, in Spanish, refers to the "admiration and love for the Moorish people and culture." Maurofilia narrations are fictitious, stylized, and intensely romantic. In such texts, the Moors (or Moriscos) are portrayed as refined, eloquent, and "content" entities living perfectly in harmony with their Christian peers.Aljamiado literature stands out for its crudeness and religious proselytism, emphasizing the chaotic reality of the Spanish Moors, who were forced to find literary expression in secret since, as Crypto-Muslim, they lived under the siege of the Spanish Inquisition. In opposition to Maurofilia literature, Aljamiado is a clandestine literary corpus produced by factual and historical Spanish Muslims far from their fictitious counterparts. To keep strong the ties that tacitly united them with their ancestors' sacred language and religion, Golden Age Moriscos wrote their underground literature in the Spanish language, utilizing Arabic characters.In this study on Aljamiado literature, Professor Emir Cruz Fernández briefly introduces Aljamiado texts written during the Spanish Golden Age, making a short inventory of the various literary genres cultivated by the people known as "the last Muslims of Spain."Special attention is given to two fantastic legends much loved by the Moriscos: the Kit?b al-Anw?r (or Book of Lights) and the Mi'r?j (or Book of Muhammad's Ladder). In these pseudo-biographical texts, Prophet Muhammad is depicted as the perfect example of a virtuous Muslim. The Messenger of Allah is portrayed as an Islamic hero whose unshakable faith, courage, and miraculous feats summon crypto-Muslims of the Spanish Golden Age to assume the socio-cultural and spiritual challenges as opportunities to test their resilience.

Author : Anwar G. Chejne
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791498875
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam and the West written by Anwar G. Chejne and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1984-06-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after the conquest of Granada in 1492 by the Catholic kings, Muslim subjects in Spain became known derogatorily as Moriscos, Moros, Muhammadans, Hagarans, and Saracens, despite the fact that they were forced to accept the sacrament of baptism. They were relegated to the margin of Christian society, considered aliens in their own land, and subjected to strictures and persecution. In turn, the Moriscos developed their own attitude, which they expressed in an extensive literature in Alijamiado, their Spanish dialect written in Arabic script. This literature was for the most part inspired by Arabic models reiterating Islamic values through the vehicles of history, legends, epic tales, stories, wisdom sayings, and sorcery. Written mostly during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Aljamiado literature is significant for the study of cultural change. Islam and the West: The Moriscos is the first comprehensive study of this long-neglected subject. Chejne surveys and analyzes the self-expression of the Moriscos and assesses their status as a minority struggling for survival, placing them in the social context of ideological conflict, the clash of religions and cultures, and differing perceptions. This book provides a more complete picture of the literatures and cultures of medieval Spain.

Author : L.P. Harvey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022622774X
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islamic Spain written by L.P. Harvey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a richly detailed account of Muslim life throughout the kingdoms of Spain, from the fall of Seville, which signaled the beginning of the retreat of Islam, to the Christian reconquest. "Harvey not only examines the politics of the Nasrids, but also the Islamic communities in the Christian kingdoms of the peninsula. This innovative approach breaks new ground, enables the reader to appreciate the situation of all Spanish Muslims and is fully vindicated. . . . An absorbing and thoroughly informed narrative."—Richard Hitchcock, Times Higher Education Supplement "L. P. Harvey has produced a beautifully written account of an enthralling subject."—Peter Linehan, The Observer

Author : L. P. Harvey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226319652
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614 written by L. P. Harvey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 18, 1499, the Muslims in Granada revolted against the Christian city government's attempts to suppress their rights to live and worship as followers of Islam. Although the Granada riot was a local phenomenon that was soon contained, subsequent widespread rebellion provided the Christian government with an excuse—or justification, as its leaders saw things—to embark on the systematic elimination of the Islamic presence from Spain, as well as from the Iberian Peninsula as a whole, over the next hundred years. Picking up at the end of his earlier classic study, Islamic Spain, 1250 to 1500— which described the courageous efforts of the followers of Islam to preserve their secular, as well as sacred, culture in late medieval Spain—L. P. Harvey chronicles here the struggles of the Moriscos. These forced converts to Christianity lived clandestinely in the sixteenth century as Muslims, communicating in aljamiado— Spanish written in Arabic characters. More broadly, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, tells the story of an early modern nation struggling to deal with diversity and multiculturalism while torn by the fanaticism of the Counter-Reformation on one side and the threat of Ottoman expansion on the other. Harvey recounts how a century of tolerance degenerated into a vicious cycle of repression and rebellion until the final expulsion in 1614 of all Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula. Retold in all its complexity and poignancy, this tale of religious intolerance, political maneuvering, and ethnic cleansing resonates with many modern concerns. Eagerly awaited by Islamist and Hispanist scholars since Harvey's first volume appeared in 1990, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, will be compulsory reading for student and specialist alike. “The year’s most rewarding historical work is L. P. Harvey’s Muslims in Spain 1500 to 1614, a sobering account of the various ways in which a venerable Islamic culture fell victim to Christian bigotry. Harvey never urges the topicality of his subject on us, but this aspect inevitably sharpens an already compelling book.”—Jonathan Keats, Times Literary Supplement

Author : Kathryn A. Miller
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231136129
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guardians of Islam written by Kathryn A. Miller and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kathryn A. Miller radically reconceptualizes what she calls the exclave experience of medieval Muslim minorities. By focusing on the legal scholars (faqihs) of fifteenth-century Aragonese Muslim communities and translating little-known and newly discovered texts, she unearths a sustained effort to connect with Muslim coreligionists and preserve practice and belief in the face of Christian influences. Devoted to securing and disseminating Islamic knowledge, these local authorities intervened in Christian courts on behalf of Muslims, provided Arabic translations, and taught and advised other Muslims. Miller follows the activities of the faqihs, their dialogue with Islamic authorities in nearby Muslim politics, their engagement with islamic texts, and their pursuit of traditional ideals of faith.