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Author García-Arenal, Mercedes

Title The Orient in Spain : converted Muslims, the forged Lead Books of Granada, and the rise of Orientalism / by Mercedes García-Arenal and Fernando Rodríguez Mediano ; translated by Consuelo López-Morillas
Published Leiden : Brill, 2013

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Series Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions, 0169-8834 ; volume 142
Studies in the history of religions ; 142. 0169-8834
Contents Abbreviations -- Note to the English Translation -- Introduction -- 1 The Sacromonte Lead Books: The Events -- The Turpiana Tower Parchment -- Archbishop Don Pedro de Castro -- The Lead Books -- The Reception of the Finds -- The Evaluation Process -- Polemics and Resistance -- The Lead Books Leave Granada -- The Lead Books in Rome -- The Defensorios -- 2 Granada Conquered: Castilianization and Conversion -- Granada Conquered -- Language and Evangelization -- The Eradication of Arabic -- The Defense of Arabic and its Persistence in Granada -- Reformers and Alumbrados -- Granada and its Moriscos around 1580 -- 3 The Noble Families -- Old Christians of Moorish Origin -- Conversion -- Integration -- Muley Fez and Granada Venegas -- The Happy Former Days of Our Glory -- The Origen de la Casa de Granada -- The Granada Venegas Literary Tertulia -- 4 Alonso del Castillo: Translator, Author? -- Alonso del Castillo and other Translators of the Parchment -- The Chapiz Family -- Physician -- vi contents Translator -- The War -- The Prophecies -- 5 Alonso del Castillo's Friends: Priests, Soldiers, Interpreters -- Priests -- Diego Marín -- Francisco López Tamarid -- Diego Marín in Morocco -- Diego Marín's Diplomatic Career -- 6 Diego Bejarano Al-Ḥajarī and the Morisco Understanding of the Lead Books -- Diego Bejarano or Aḥmad B. Qāsim Al-Ḥajarī -- Al-Ḥajarī and the Parchment and Lead Books -- How the Moriscos Read the Lead Books -- 7 Miguel de Luna: Historian, Novelist, Physician -- The Historia Verdadera Del Rey Don Rodrigo -- Physician: The Tratado De Los Baños (Treatise on Baths) -- 8 Miguel de Luna: Translator, Apologist, Author -- The Parchment -- Miguel de Luna, Pedro Guerra de Lorca, and Benito Arias Montano -- The Lead Books Translated -- The Solomonic Letters -- Friendship with Joan de Faría
Miguel de Luna and the Moriscos of Toledo: "There is No Better Moor in Spain" -- 9 Jerónimo Román de la Higuera: The False Chronicles and the Sacromonte Lead Books -- Annius of Viterbo and Spain -- Jerónimo Román de la Higuera and the False Chronicles -- Saint James -- Toledo and the Cult of San Tirso -- Román de la Higuera and Alonso del Castillo -- Román de la Higuera and Pedro de Castro -- Román de la Higuera, Miguel de Luna, and the Tower of Hercules -- The True Cross of Caravaca -- The Influence of Higuera: Jews and Phoenicians -- 10 Diego de Urrea -- Diego de Urrea between Italy and North Africa -- Urrea in Spain -- Diego de Urrea and the Lead Books -- Urrea the Historian -- Diplomatic Missions -- Diego de Urrea in Naples -- Francisco de Gurmendi -- 11 Marcos Dobelio -- The Sacromonte Seeks Arabic Translators -- An Arabist in Italy and Spain -- Marcos Dobelio and the Arabic Manuscripts of El Escorial -- Marcos Dobelio's Arabic Books -- A Partial Translation of Abū l-Fidāʼ 's History -- A Translation of a Medical Work and a Grammar -- Dobelio's Papers -- 12 Marcos Dobelio and the Books from Pastrana: The Islamic Content of the Lead Books -- Writing and Necromancy -- Pastrana -- The Pastrana Books -- Genealogies, Religious Polemic, and Stories of the Prophets -- Al-Bakrī's Kitāb al-Anwār -- Islamic Texts for a Morisco Audience -- Muhammad Alguazir or Diego Alguacil -- 13 Is The Arabic of the Lead Books the Language of Islam? -- The Laminae Granatenses and the Vatican Experts -- Arabic in Rome -- Mohammedan Terms -- 14 Father Tomás de León and the Marquis of Mondéjar: A Learned Correspondence -- Gaspar Ibáñez de Segovia, Marquis of Agrópoli and of Mondéjar -- Father Tomás de León -- Works by Tomás de León -- Father Tirso González de Santalla -- Tomás de León and the Sacromonte Abbey -- Tomás de León, Orientalist -- Networks of Arabists
Martín Vázquez Siruela -- A Circle of Orientalists? -- 15 The Arabic Language and Orientalism in Spain -- Learning Arabic: The Problem of Texts -- Learning Arabic: The New Materials -- Orientalist Books in Spain -- 16 Al-Andalus in the History of Spain -- Al-Andalus: Part of the History of Spain? -- Diego Pérez de Mesa -- Arabic Sources for Writing the History of Spain: Luis del Mármol -- Diego de Guadix -- The Relics of al-Andalus -- Continuities and Ruptures -- Problems of Interpretation -- 17 The Arabic Language as a Tool for Scholarship -- In Defense of Oriental Languages -- Arabic Script -- Manuscripts and Translations -- 18 The Orient in Spain -- Problems of Chronology: The Hijra -- The Orient in Spain: Judaism -- The Orient in Spain: Egypt -- Egyptian Chronology -- "The Perverse Domestic Enemies of the Church" -- Epilogue -- Sources and Bibliography -- Illustrations -- Index of Persons -- Index of Places
Summary The Spanish Orient offers a study of the Morisco minority in Early Modern Granada through the affair of the forged Arabic gospels found in the city at the end of 16th century. It connects the findings of this gospel with the origins of Orientalism
Notes Translation of: Un oriente español. Madrid : Marcial Pons Historia, 2010; corrected and expanded, with new research and a new bibliography
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Abadía del Sacromonte (Granada, Spain) -- History
SUBJECT Abadía del Sacromonte (Granada, Spain) fast
Subject Moriscos -- Spain -- Granada -- History -- 16th century
Forgery -- Spain -- Granada -- History -- 16th century
Orientalism -- Spain -- History -- 16th century
Arabic language -- Spain -- History -- 16th century
Islam -- Spain -- History -- 16th century
HISTORY -- Europe -- Spain & Portugal.
Arabic language
Forgery
Historiography
Intellectual life
Islam
Moriscos
Orientalism
SUBJECT Granada (Spain) -- History -- 16th century
Granada (Spain) -- Church history -- 16th century
Spain -- Intellectual life -- 1516-1700. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85126146
Spain -- Historiography
Subject Spain
Spain -- Granada
Genre/Form Church history
History
Form Electronic book
Author Rodríguez Mediano, Fernando
ISBN 9789004250291
9004250298
9781299561267
1299561268
Other Titles Oriente español. English