- Her research focuses on the religious history of Iberia and the Muslim West, mainly on religious minorities: conversi... moreHer research focuses on the religious history of Iberia and the Muslim West, mainly on religious minorities: conversion, polemics, messianism, religious dissidence, and dissimulation.edit
The main aim of this article is to investigate the similarities between the Latin translation of the Qur’an commissioned by the Italian cardinal Egidio da Viterbo (first version, 1518) and Quranic quotations included in a treatise... more
The main aim of this article is to investigate the similarities between the Latin translation of the Qur’an commissioned by the Italian cardinal Egidio da Viterbo (first version, 1518) and Quranic quotations included in a treatise entitled Lumbre de fe contra el Alcorán (Valencia, 1521) authored by a Catholic preacher, Fray Johan Martín de Figuerola, in order to corroborate the hypothesis that the texts share a common author. The person regarded as the link between them is a convert from Islam to Christianity known as Juan Gabriel from Teruel, formerly Ali Alayzar. The arguments in favour of this thesis are presented, first of all, within a historical description of the circumstances and coincidences of the people involved in the production of the two translation projects; secondly, textual evidence is put forward in which correspondences, similarities and differences are highlighted and discussed. We also consider the similarities to the quotations in Juan Andrés’s Confusión o confutación del Alcorán, drawing attention to a circle of other Christian polemicists around Martín García who were all working in various ways with the Arabic Qur’an.
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... | Ayuda. Una década de historiografía magrebí sobre los siglos modernos. Autores:Mercedes García-Arenal; Localización: Diez años de historiografía modernista / coord. por Armando Alberola Romá, 1997 , pags. 173-184. © 2001 ...
[ES] Este artículo examina la propaganda establecida por Ahmad al-Mansür a-Dahabi tanto en su correspondencia, como a través del ceremonial de la corte y de los cronistas, apologistas oficiales del sultán, propaganda que sacraliza... more
[ES] Este artículo examina la propaganda establecida por Ahmad al-Mansür a-Dahabi tanto en su correspondencia, como a través del ceremonial de la corte y de los cronistas, apologistas oficiales del sultán, propaganda que sacraliza extraordinariamente su figura y ...
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... Mudéjares y moriscos en el Reino de Granada y en Murcia. Autores: Mercedes García-Arenal; Localización: Al-qantara: Revista de estudios árabes, ISSN 0211-3589, Vol. 15, Fasc. 1, 1994 , págs. 257-260. Fundación Dialnet. Acceso de... more
... Mudéjares y moriscos en el Reino de Granada y en Murcia. Autores: Mercedes García-Arenal; Localización: Al-qantara: Revista de estudios árabes, ISSN 0211-3589, Vol. 15, Fasc. 1, 1994 , págs. 257-260. Fundación Dialnet. Acceso de usuarios registrados. ...
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... además es verosímil que lo mismo sucediera con otros monasterios de los que quedan citas tales como de un «Martinus abba cordovensis». ... que conocían mejor el árabe que el latín (para toda esta cuestión, véanse los capítulos... more
... además es verosímil que lo mismo sucediera con otros monasterios de los que quedan citas tales como de un «Martinus abba cordovensis». ... que conocían mejor el árabe que el latín (para toda esta cuestión, véanse los capítulos correspondientes en el "libro citado de M. Fierro ...
... El estudio más general sobre la dinastía sa°di, aunque actualmente vigente en muchas de sus informaciones e ideas, es el de A. Cour, LfétabIissement des dynasties des chérifs au Maroc et leur rivalité avec les Turcs de la régence... more
... El estudio más general sobre la dinastía sa°di, aunque actualmente vigente en muchas de sus informaciones e ideas, es el de A. Cour, LfétabIissement des dynasties des chérifs au Maroc et leur rivalité avec les Turcs de la régence dkálger (1509-1830), Paris, 1904. 30 ...
... Moros y judíos en Navarra en la Baja Edad Media. Información General. Autores: MercedesGarcía-Arenal, Béatrice Leroy; Editores: Madrid : Hiperión, 1984; Año de publicación: 1984; País: España; Idioma: Español; ISBN : 84-7517-118-4.... more
... Moros y judíos en Navarra en la Baja Edad Media. Información General. Autores: MercedesGarcía-Arenal, Béatrice Leroy; Editores: Madrid : Hiperión, 1984; Año de publicación: 1984; País: España; Idioma: Español; ISBN : 84-7517-118-4. Otros catálogos. ...
... Relación del origen y suceso de los xarifes y del estado de los reinos de Marruecos, Fez y Tarudante. Información General. Autores: Diego de Torres, Julio Caro Baroja, MercedesGarcía-Arenal; Editores: Madrid : Siglo XXI de España,... more
... Relación del origen y suceso de los xarifes y del estado de los reinos de Marruecos, Fez y Tarudante. Información General. Autores: Diego de Torres, Julio Caro Baroja, MercedesGarcía-Arenal; Editores: Madrid : Siglo XXI de España, 1980; Año de publicación: 1980; ...
Información del libro Inquisición y moriscos: los procesos del Tribunal de Cuenca.
... A MARCOS DOBELIO, INTÉRPRETES Y TRADUCTORES DE LOS PLOMOS Femando Rodríguez Mediano, Mercedes García-Arenal 297 «PIEDRAS ÁRABES»: RODRIGO CARO Y su TRADUCCIÓN DE LAS INSCRIPCIONES ÁRABES DE SEVILLA (1634) Heather L. Ecker ...
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... | Ayuda. Al-Andalus allende el Atlántico. Información general. Autores: MercedesGarcía-Arenal ( coord. ... María Rosa de Madariaga Alvarez-Prida. pags. 19-22. Introducción: al-Andalus allende al Atlántico. Mercedes García-Arenal.... more
... | Ayuda. Al-Andalus allende el Atlántico. Información general. Autores: MercedesGarcía-Arenal ( coord. ... María Rosa de Madariaga Alvarez-Prida. pags. 19-22. Introducción: al-Andalus allende al Atlántico. Mercedes García-Arenal. pags. 23-34. ...
... Esplendor de Al-Andalus: la poesía andaluza en árabe clásico en el siglo XI:sus aspectos generales, sus principales temas y su valor documental. Información General. Autores: Henri Pérès, Mercedes García-Arenal; Editores ...
Early Modern Europe was witness to an unprecedented interest in learning the Arabic language. This philological interest was connected to the evidence of Arabic similarity with Hebrew and the usefulness of Arabic grammars and dictionaries... more
Early Modern Europe was witness to an unprecedented interest in learning the Arabic language. This philological interest was connected to the evidence of Arabic similarity with Hebrew and the usefulness of Arabic grammars and dictionaries for studying the Holy Tongue. A field of knowledge was gradually created in which Arabic detached itself from its use as an instrument of pros-elytizing or diplomacy. This shift occurred through the translation and citation of Arabic sources, the purchase and cataloguing of Arabic manuscripts in the main libraries of Europe and an attempt to institutionalize the teaching of Arabic at universities. The exhaustive study of the Bible and its various tex-tual traditions, the need to coordinate these with newly acquired knowledge of other languages, including Arabic, and the refinement of historiographic and philological tools which were the accompanying processes all contributed to dismantling the walls between sacred and profane history. This package of new knowledge can be labelled 'Orientalism'. As applied by scholars to this period, the term refers to a crucial moment in the creation of Oriental studies in Europe characterised by the foundational activities of figures like Erpenius, Raimondi or Bedwell. This refers to both their works and their search for new texts with which to learn Oriental languages. Such 'Oriental scholar-ship' or early 'Orientalism' proved itself capable of creating basic critical, historical and philological tools which were problematic for extant textual and religious authority. The religious dimension was ever-present in a world dominated by polemics with the Europe of the Reformation and by the process of confessionalization. Ever since James Monroe published his well-known book on Arabic studies in Spain, scholars have argued that Spain played no part in the development of
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... The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain (Book). Autores: Mercedes García-Arenal; Localización: Speculum: A journal of medieval studies, ISSN 0038-7134, Nº. 3, 2004... more
... The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain (Book). Autores: Mercedes García-Arenal; Localización: Speculum: A journal of medieval studies, ISSN 0038-7134, Nº. 3, 2004 , págs. 801-804. Fundación Dialnet. ...
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Download a branded Cambridge Journals Online toolbar (for IE 7 only). What is this? ... Add Cambridge Journals Online as a search option in your browser toolbar. What is this? ... Captives of the Corsairs Spanish Captives in North Africa in the Early Modern Age. By Ellen G. ...
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Un colloquio internazionale tra specialisti di varie discipline per interrogarsi su una imprevista fonte storica: i graffiti, i disegni e le iscrizioni delle celle delle carceri segrete del mSanto Uffizio spagnolo a Palermo.
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This essay analyses the comparisons made in the Apology against the articles of the Christian Religion by Muhamad Alguazir (c. 1610). Alguazir, a Morisco from Pastrana (Spain), was one of the Moriscos living at the court of sultan Mawlay... more
This essay analyses the comparisons made in the Apology against the articles of the Christian Religion by Muhamad Alguazir (c. 1610). Alguazir, a Morisco from Pastrana (Spain), was one of the Moriscos living at the court of sultan Mawlay Zaydan (1608–1627). The polemical treatise he wrote was sent to Maurice of Orange shortly after the conclusion of a treaty of friendship between Zaydan and the Dutch (in 1610) and translated into Latin. The polemic had a two-pronged later influence: on European debates about the Trinity; and it was used by Anti-Trinitarians and by German Lutherans in their polemics against them, on the one hand, and by Moriscos living in Tunis, viz. the expelled Toledan Morisco Juan Pérez aka Ibrahim Taybili, on the other. We study the transformations that the polemic underwent according to the translations and the religious transfers.
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This essay studies the translations of the Qur’ān into Romance languages in anti-Islamic treatises written by Christians in the Iberian Peninsula in the sixteenth century. It compares three such works (here called Antialcoranes or... more
This essay studies the translations of the Qur’ān into Romance languages in anti-Islamic treatises written by Christians in the Iberian Peninsula in the sixteenth century. It compares three such works (here called Antialcoranes or ‘anti-Qur’āns’) that contain citations of the Qur’ān in Arabic, either in Arabic script or in transliteration, or both. These include the Confusión o confutación de la secta Mahomética y del Alcorán (1515) of Juan Andrés, the Lumbre de fe contra la secta mahometana y el alcorán (1521) by Martín de Figuerola and the Confutación del alcorán y secta mahometana (1555) by Lope de Obregón. It also considers glosses found in the Latin Qur’ān made at the behest of the Italian cardinal Egidio (Giles) da Viterbo (1518). We argue that these works merit detailed study, along with more studied Latin translations, as part of a history of the translation of the Qur’ān in the early modern period.
Research Interests: Humanities, Translation Studies, Art, Arabic, Quranic Studies, and 15 moreMoriscos, The Spanish Inquisition, Quranic Exegesis, Juan Andrés, Quranic and Islamic Studies, Moriscos in Granada, Polemics and Apologetics, Pérez de Chinchón, Quran and Tafsir Studies, Muslim Christian Relation, Martín de Figuerola, Muslim Christian Relations, Qur Anic Studies, Juan Gabriel, and Transcultural Medieval Studies
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... Los mudéjares en el Reino de Navarra y en la Corona de Aragón: Estado actual de su estudio. Autores: Mercedes García-Arenal; Localización: Actas del III Simposio internacional de mudejarismo: Teruel, 20-22 de septiembre de 1984, 1984,... more
... Los mudéjares en el Reino de Navarra y en la Corona de Aragón: Estado actual de su estudio. Autores: Mercedes García-Arenal; Localización: Actas del III Simposio internacional de mudejarismo: Teruel, 20-22 de septiembre de 1984, 1984, ISBN 84-505-3518-2 , págs. ...
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Miguel de Luna, el morisco granadino conocido sobre todo como autor de la falsa cronica Historia verdadera del Rey Don Rodrigo y como traductor, apologista y posible participante en la fabricacion del faude de los llamados Libros de Plomo... more
Miguel de Luna, el morisco granadino conocido sobre todo como autor de la falsa cronica Historia verdadera del Rey Don Rodrigo y como traductor, apologista y posible participante en la fabricacion del faude de los llamados Libros de Plomo del Sacromonte, nos era familiar bajo su faceta, que el defendia, de “cristiano arabigo”. Se presenta aqui nueva documentacion que rebela su conexion con moriscos criptomusulmanes de Toledo y su participacion en redes moriscas. Esta nueva documentacion obliga a una nueva lectura del personaje e incluso de los Plomos.
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Drie religies, twee continenten, vijf landen: een korte typering van het veelbewogen leven van Samuel Pallache. Deze reconstructie van het leven van Pallache, een jood van Spaanse afkomst, die opgroeide in Marokko, is een geslaagde... more
Drie religies, twee continenten, vijf landen: een korte typering van het veelbewogen leven van Samuel Pallache. Deze reconstructie van het leven van Pallache, een jood van Spaanse afkomst, die opgroeide in Marokko, is een geslaagde microgeschiedenis van de joden in Europa en verkent de complexe loyaliteiten en identiteiten die ze tussen de verschillende werelden construeerden. Geboren omstreeks 1550 in Fez in een Marokkaans-joodse familie van Spaanse origine, werd Pallache gezant van de koning van Marokko in de Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Provincien, koopman en piraat. Op last van de Spaanse ambassadeur werd hij gevangengezet in Londen en na inmenging van stadhouder prins Maurits weer vrijgelaten, maar als voormalig dienaar van de Spaanse koning was hij tegelijkertijd verwikkeld in een complex dubbelspel. Als 'barbarijnse' jood speelde hij een rol van betekenis in het vroegste synagogale leven in Amsterdam, maar hij en leden van zijn naaste familie overwogen ook een bekeri...
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbrevations and Note on Transcription List of frequently used terms List of Contributors Introduction Mercedes Garcia-Arenal and Gerard Wiegers Part I. The Expulsion. Preparations, Debates,... more
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbrevations and Note on Transcription List of frequently used terms List of Contributors Introduction Mercedes Garcia-Arenal and Gerard Wiegers Part I. The Expulsion. Preparations, Debates, and Process 1: The Geography of the Morisco Expulsion: A Quantitative Study Bernard Vincent 2: The Expulsion of the Moriscos in the Context of Philip III's Mediterranean Policy Miguel Angel de Bunes Ibarra 3: Rhetorics of the Expulsion Antonio Feros 4: The Religious Debate in Spain Rafael Benitez Sanchez Blanco 5: The Vatican's Position towards the Expulsion Stefania Pastore 6: The Religious Orders and the Expulsion of the Moriscos: Doctrinal Controversies and Hispano-Papal Relations Paolo Broggio 7: The Unexecuted Plans for the Eeradication of Jewish Heresy in the Hispanic Monarchy and the Example of the Moriscos: The Thwarted Expulsion of the Judeoconversos Juan Ignacio Pulido 8: The Moriscos Who Stayed Behind or Returned: Post-1609 James B. Tueller Part II. The Morisco Diaspora 9: The Moriscos outside Spain: Routes and Financing Luis F. Bernabe Pons and Jorge Gil Herrera 10 The Moriscos in France after the Expulsion: Notes for the History of a Minority Youssef El Alaoui 11: Moriscos in Ottoman Galata, 1609-1620s Tijana Krstic 12: The Moriscos in Morocco: from Granadan Emigration to the hornacheros of Sale" Mercedes Garcia-Arenal 13: Andalusi Immigration and Urban Development in Algiers (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries) Sakina Missoum 14: The Moriscos in Tunisia Olatz Villanueva Zubizarreta 15: The Expulsion of 1609-1614 and the Polemical Writings of the Moriscos Living in the Diaspora Gerard Wiegers 16: Converted Jews and Moriscos in the Diaspora Natalia Muchnik General Bibliography Index of places Index of names
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Research Interests: Philosophy, Early Modern History, Arabic, Moriscos, Early modern Spain, and 12 moreJuan Andrés, Historical Studies, Egidio da Viterbo, Confusion, Religious Polemics, Quran and Tafsir Studies, Muslim Christian Relation, Martín de Figuerola, Qur Anic Studies, Juan Gabriel, Polémica religiosa, and Al Qantara
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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... more
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.
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... Viajeros árabes a España, españoles a Marruecos: la misma cara del espejo. Autores: MercedesGarcía-Arenal; Localización: Revista de libros, ISSN 1137-2249, Nº. 105, 2005 , págs. 7-9; Es reseña de: El otro laberinto español: viajeros... more
... Viajeros árabes a España, españoles a Marruecos: la misma cara del espejo. Autores: MercedesGarcía-Arenal; Localización: Revista de libros, ISSN 1137-2249, Nº. 105, 2005 , págs. 7-9; Es reseña de: El otro laberinto español: viajeros árabes a España entre el s. XVII y 1936. ...
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This collection takes a new approach to understanding religious plurality in the Iberian Peninsula and its Mediterranean and northern European contexts. Focusing on polemics—works that attack or refute the beliefs of religious Others—this... more
This collection takes a new approach to understanding religious plurality in the Iberian Peninsula and its Mediterranean and northern European contexts. Focusing on polemics—works that attack or refute the beliefs of religious Others—this volume aims to challenge the problematic characterization of Iberian Jews, Muslims, and Christians as homogeneous groups. From the high Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century, Christian efforts to convert groups of Jews and Muslims, Muslim efforts to convert Christians and Jews, and the defensive efforts of these communities to keep their members within the faiths led to the production of numerous polemics. This volume brings together a wide variety of case studies that expose how the current historiographical focus on the three religious communities as allegedly homogeneous groups obscures the diversity within the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim communities as well as the growing ranks of skeptics and outright unbelievers. Featuring contr...
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La tradition millenariste et messianique en islam est connue sous le nom de mahdisme. Le mahdi, " le bien guide ", est un descendant du Prophete Muhammad qui, en tant que chef pre-designe et infaillible, " se levera "... more
La tradition millenariste et messianique en islam est connue sous le nom de mahdisme. Le mahdi, " le bien guide ", est un descendant du Prophete Muhammad qui, en tant que chef pre-designe et infaillible, " se levera " pour lancer une grande transformation sociale, en vue de restaurer la purete des temps premiers en placant toutes choses sous une direction divine. Le messie islamique incarne les aspirations de ses adeptes a la restauration de la purete de la foi qui apportera une direction veridique et non corrompue a toute l'humanite, creant un ordre social juste et un monde libere de l'oppression pour un temps qui precedera la Derniere Heure. Le mahdisme a a voir avec la question de la direction legitime de la communaute, et donc du pouvoir politique ; il est un des recours les plus puissants qu'offre la tradition musulmane pour legitimer un dirigeant du point de vue religieux et politique, mais aussi pour legitimer une rebellion contre le pouvoir et...
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This essay focuses on the graffiti in a single cell of the Inquisition's prisions in Palermo, sipplemented with inquisitorial trial records and documents produced during an inspection of the Sicilian Inquisition at the behest of the... more
This essay focuses on the graffiti in a single cell of the Inquisition's prisions in Palermo, sipplemented with inquisitorial trial records and documents produced during an inspection of the Sicilian Inquisition at the behest of the Suprema in Madrid. The graffiti in combination with theses documents allow us to hear a polyphony of voices, not just the dialogic relation of inquisitors and victims that has been questioned by historians, but a new landscape which give voice to the inmates themselves. I aim at perceiving the voices of the prisioners, but also at the construction of their religious identity under the impact of their incarceration and trial at the hands of the Inquisition. I suggest that we see in cell 2 religious identily not as something that the inmates already had before, and which then underwent a process of radicalization, but rather as something actually created in the specific context of the prision
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Reseña de Stephen Greenblatt, El Giro: De cómo un manuscrito olvidado contribuyó a crear el mundo moderno (Trad. castellana de J. Rabasseda y T. De Lozoya). Barcelona : Ed. Crítica, 2012, 319 pp. ISBN: 978-8498924121.
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This paper studies the little-known Spanish Qur'anic translations included within Christian works of polemics that were produced in Iberia in the first quarter of the sixteenth century. Such fragments are an important testimony of... more
This paper studies the little-known Spanish Qur'anic translations included within Christian works of polemics that were produced in Iberia in the first quarter of the sixteenth century. Such fragments are an important testimony of otherwise rare translations of the Qur'an into Iberian vernacular languages. This study focuses on the Qur'anic material cited by authors connected to Martín García, Bishop of Barcelona (c. 845–928/1441–1521) in polemical treatises written for the evangelisation of the Granadan Muslims (converted to Christianity by the decree of 1502) and the conversion of the Valencian and Aragonese Muslims (legally Muslims until 1526). It considers two treatises, authoured respectively by Juan Andrés and Johan Martín de Figuerola, belonging to the genre that has come to be known as Antialcoranes, or ‘anti-Qur'ans’. These are further compared to the quotations included by Martín García himself in his sermons as well as by two subsequent sixteenth-century a...
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Research Interests: History, Religious Conversion, History of Religion (Medieval Studies), Christian-Muslim Dialogue, Philosophy and Religious Studies, and 8 moreInterreligious Polemics, Jewish-Christian Polemics, History and archaeology, Jewish Christian relations, Polemics and Apologetics, Inter-Religious Polemics, Muslim Christian Relation, and Muslim Christian Relations
Cet article est consacre a Diego de Urrea (+1615), traducteur et interprete de l'arabe, du turc et du persan pour les rois d'Espagne. D'origine italienne, Urrea fut d'abord secretaire de quelques seigneurs ottomans, puis... more
Cet article est consacre a Diego de Urrea (+1615), traducteur et interprete de l'arabe, du turc et du persan pour les rois d'Espagne. D'origine italienne, Urrea fut d'abord secretaire de quelques seigneurs ottomans, puis travailla en Europe et en Espagne, et, enfin, devint a Naples membre de l'Accademia dei Lincei. Sa carriere est une illustration des usages de la langue arabe dans l'Espagne des XVI-XVII e siecles: Urrea traduisit les Livres du Plomb du Sacromonte a Grenade, fit un catalogue des manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial, travailla comme espion et diplomate, fut, enfin, le premier professeur d'arabe a l'Universite d'Alcalâ de Henares. Sa figure evoque aussi l'itineraire d'autres arabisants de l'epoque, comme Marco Dobelio, dont la biographie souligne aussi la logique des rapports entre l'Espagne et l'Italie autour des problemes lies a cette erudition orientaliste europeenne alors au berceau.
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In Morocco, the Moriscos expelled from Spain between 1610 and 1614 were known, by the name of "Andalusians" and they formed part of an emigration process which had gone on for centuries. This chapter aims to show the continuity... more
In Morocco, the Moriscos expelled from Spain between 1610 and 1614 were known, by the name of "Andalusians" and they formed part of an emigration process which had gone on for centuries. This chapter aims to show the continuity of a chiefly Granadan process of emigration to Morocco and to highlight the existence of a set of structures created by these emigrants, which were to serve the Moriscos expelled at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Such continuities and structures constituted long-lasting patterns which the author describes in some detail: a leading role was played in them by prophetic predictions and the desire to return to and even re-conquer former Peninsular territories. It is important to emphasise the emigrants' tendency to form autonomous communities that acted independently of local Moroccan authorities. Equally significant was the influence of the emigrants on certain political decisions made by Moroccan sultans. Keywords: Andalusians; Granadan emigration process; Moriscos; Moroccan sultans; Morocco; Spain