The Orient in Spain
Subtitle: converted Muslims, the forged lead books of Granada, and the rise of orientalism
By: by Mercedes Garcia-Arenal and Fernando Rodriguez Mediano ; translated by Consuelo Lopez-Morillas
Contributors: Rodríguez Mediano, Fernando
Series: Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions -- volume 142
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 475
ISBN-13: 9789004244504; 9789004250291
Subjects: Moriscos; History; Church history; Forgery; Orientalism; Arabic language; Islam; Intellectual life; Historiography; Abadía del Sacromonte (Granada, Spain)
Work titles: Oriente español
Description: 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.
Notes: Translation of: Un oriente español. Madrid : Marcial Pons Historia, 2010; corrected and expanded, with new research and a new bibliography.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-447) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The Sacromonte Lead Books : The Events; title: Granada Conquered : Castilianization and Conversion; title: The Noble Families; title: Alonso del Castillo : Translator, Author?; title: Alonso del Castillo's Friends : Priests, Soldiers, Interpreters; title: Diego Bejarano Al-Ajar and the Morisco Understanding of the Lead Books; title: Miguel de Luna : Historian, Novelist, Physician; title: Miguel de Luna : Translator, Apologist, Author; title: Jeronimo Roman de la Higuera : The False Chronicles and the Sacromonte Lead Books; title: Diego de Urrea; title: Marcos Dobelio; title: Marcos Dobelio and the Books from Pastrana : The Islamic Content of the Lead Books; title: Is The Arabic of the Lead Books the Language of Islam?; title: Father Tomas de Leon and the Marquis of Mondejar : A Learned  Correspondence; title: The Arabic Language and Orientalism in Spain; title: Al-Andalus in the History of Spain; title: The Arabic Language as a Tool for Scholarship; title: The Orient in Spain; title: Epilogue.