The Orient in Spain : converted Muslims, the forged Lead books of Granada, and the rise of orientalism

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Label

The Orient in Spain : converted Muslims, the forged Lead books of Granada, and the rise of orientalism

Title remainder

converted Muslims, the forged Lead books of Granada, and the rise of orientalism

Statement of responsibility

by Mercedes García-Arenal and Fernando Rodríguez Mediano ; translated by Consuelo López-Morillas

Creator

• García-Arenal, Mercedes

Contributor

• Rodríguez Mediano, Fernando

Author

• Rodríguez Mediano, Fernando
• García-Arenal, Mercedes

Subject

• Church history
• Forgery -- Spain | Granada -- History -- 16th century
• Granada (Spain) -- Church history -- 16th century
• Granada (Spain) -- History -- 16th century
• History
• Islam -- Spain -- History -- 16th century
• Moriscos -- Spain | Granada -- History -- 16th century
• Orientalism -- Spain -- History -- 16th century
• Spain -- Historiography
• Spain -- Intellectual life -- 1516-1700
• Arabic language -- Spain -- History -- 16th century
• Abadía del Sacromonte (Granada, Spain) -- History

Genre

• Church history
• History

Language

• eng
• spa
• eng

Summary

Taking as its main subject a series of notorious forgeries by Muslim converts in sixteenth-century Granada (including an apocryphal gospel in Arabic), this book studies the emotional, cultural and religious world view of the Morisco minority and the complexity of its identity, caught between the wish to respect Arabic cultural traditions, and the pressures of evangelization and efforts at integration into "Old Christian" society. Orientalist scholarship in Early Modern Spain, in which an interest in Oriental languages, mainly Arabic, was linked to important historiographical questions, such as the uses and value of Arabic sources and the problem of the integration of al-Andalus within a providentialist history of Spain, is also addressed. The authors consider these issues not only from a local point of view, but from a wider perspective, in an attempt to understand how these matters related to more general European intellectual and religious developments

Member of

• Studies in the history of religions, 142
• Oriente español

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

946/.04

Index

index present

LC call number

DP104

LC item number

.G3713 2013

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions,

Series volume

volume 142