Orient in Spain

Mercedes García-Arenal is Research Professor at the National Council for Scientific Research, Madrid. She has published about cultural and religious aspects of the Muslim West and of ethnic-religious minorities in Spain and the Magreb. Among her books, Messianism and Puritanical Reform: Mahdis of the Muslim West (Leiden, Brill,2003) with Gerard Wiegers, A man of three Worlds: Samuel Pallache, a Moroccan jew between Catholic and Protestant Europe, (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins, 2006).Fernando Rodríguez Mediano is Scientific Researcher at the National Council for Scientific Research, Madrid. His has published about the history of Morocco and its relationship with Spain (15th-20th centuries). Among his publications: Fernando Rodríguez Mediano and Helena de Felipe (eds.),El Protectorado español en Marruecos. Gestión colonial e identidades, Madrid, CSIC, 2002; Familias de Fez (ss. XV-XVII), Madrid, CSIC, 1995.

"In The Orient in Spain researchers, historians, and scholars are treated to a unique study of an important era of Spanish intellectual history. At a time when researchers increasingly risk over-specialization, García-Arenal and Rodríguez Mediano demonstrate with great skill how one set of texts can reveal the continuities that are present within and between medieval and modern Spain. In this light, the book comes as a welcome volume to the field for those who study early-modern Spain and Islam in Europe." - Charles Tieszen, Fuller Theological Seminary, in: Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, 25:2"García-Arenal and Rodríguez Mediano's reconstruction of these complex intellectual networks is complemented by an exhaustive twenty-three page bibliograph of primary and secondary sources. Any scholar interested in the history of European Orientalism or Muslim-Christian relations in the early modern world will find this book to be an indispensable resource." - Alison Weber, University of Virginia, in: Sixteenth Century Journal, XLVI 2 (2015)"This review cannot begin to do justice to the achievement of The Orient in Spain, which begins in Granada and then ranges across the Mediterranean world to northern Europe, into secret crypts, lost books, and the hearts of a people determined to preserve their religious and cultural identity. It is an immensely important book, [...] one that will reward anyone who is interested in a completely different view of the cultural and intellectual history of Early Modern Spain." - Sara T. Nalle, William Paterson University of New Jersey, in: Medieval Encounters 21 (2015)"Based on vast research in European and Arabic sources, The Orient in Spain is a major scholarly achievement. It makes important contributions to the cultural history of Spain and the Moriscos, the history of European scholarship, and the cross-cultural history of the early modern Mediterranean." - Daniel Stolzenberg, University of California, Davis, in: Renaissance Quarterly, 67:1"Specialists in Spanish and European history will appreciate the sheer volume of information consolidated here, along with the extensive bibliography at the end. Likewise, the book’s organization according to major figures and their biographies will lend itself well for researchers trying to locate specific information." - Jessica L. Chen, Stanford University, in: Religion, 46:1"Fascinating to read and thoroughly stimulating (...) it is a vivid snapshot into how Arabs, Islam, and even Jews and Judaism were Christianized and assimilated into Spain." - Jamsheed K. Choksy, Indiana University, in: Comparative Sociology 17 (2018)

• ABBREVIATIONSINTRODUCTIONCHAPTER 1. THE SACROMONTE LEAD BOOKS: THE EVENTSTHE TURPIANA TOWER PARCHMENTARCHBISHOP DON PEDRO DE CASTROTHE LEAD BOOKSTHE RECEPTION OF THE FINDSTHE EVALUATION PROCESSPOLEMICS AND RESISTANCETHE LEAD BOOKS LEAVE GRANADATHE LEAD BOOKS IN ROMETHE DEFENSORIOSCHAPTER 2. GRANADA CONQUERED: CASTILIANIZATION AND CONVERSIONGRANADA CONQUEREDLANGUAGE AND EVANGELIZATIONTHE ERADICATION OF ARABICTHE DEFENSE OF ARABIC AND ITS PERSISTENCE IN GRANADAREFORMERS AND ALUMBRADOSGRANADA AND ITS MORISCOS AROUND 1580CHAPTER 3. THE NOBLE FAMILIESOLD CHRISTIANS OF MOORISH ORIGINCONVERSIONINTEGRATIONMULEY FEZ AND GRANADA VENEGASTHE HAPPY FORMER DAYS OF OUR GLORYTHE ORIGEN DE LA CASA DE GRANADATHE GRANADA VENEGAS LITERARY TERTULIACHAPTER 4. ALONSO DEL CASTILLO : TRANSLATOR, AUTHOR? ALONSO DEL CASTILLO AND OTHER TRANSLATORS OF THE PARCHMENTTHE CHAPIZ FAMILYPHYSICIANTRANSLATORTHE WARTHE PROPHECIESCHAPTER 5. ALONSO DEL CASTILLO’S FRIENDS: PRIESTS, SOLDIERS, INTERPRETERSPRIESTSDIEGO MARÍNFRANCISCO LÓPEZ TAMARIDDIEGO MARÍN IN MOROCCODIEGO MARÍN’S DIPLOMATIC CAREER CHAPTER 6. DIEGO BEJARANO AL-ḥAJARĪ AND THE MORISCO UNDERSTANDING OF THE LEAD BOOKSDIEGO BEJARANO OR AḥMAD B. QĀSIM AL-ḥAJARĪ AL-ḥAJARĪ AND THE PARCHMENT AND LEAD BOOKS HOW THE MORISCOS READ THE LEAD BOOKSCHAPTER 7. MIGUEL DE LUNA: HISTORIAN, NOVELIST, PHYSICIANTHE HISTORIA VERDADERA DEL REY DON RODRIGOPHYSICIAN: THE TRATADO DE LOS BAÑOS (TREATISE ON BATHS) CHAPTER 8. MIGUEL DE LUNA: TRANSLATOR, APOLOGIST, AUTHORTHE PARCHMENTMIGUEL DE LUNA, PEDRO GUERRA DE LORCA, AND BENITO ARIAS MONTANOTHE LEAD BOOKS TRANSLATEDTHE SOLOMONIC LETTERSFRIENDSHIP WITH JOAN DE FARÍAMIGUEL DE LUNA AND THE MORISCOS OF TOLEDO: “THERE IS NO BETTER MOOR IN SPAIN”CHAPTER 9. JERÓNIMO ROMÁN DE LA HIGUERA: THE FALSE CHRONICLES AND THE SACROMONTELEAD BOOKSANNIUS OF VITERBO AND SPAINJERÓNIMO ROMÁN DE LA HIGUERA AND THE FALSE CHRONICLESSAINT JAMESTOLEDO AND THE CULT OF SAN TIRSOROMÁN DE LA HIGUERA AND ALONSO DEL CASTILLOROMÁN DE LA HIGUERA AND PEDRO DE CASTROROMÁN DE LA HIGUERA, MIGUEL DE LUNA, AND THE TOWER OF HERCULESTHE TRUE CROSS OF CARAVACATHE INFLUENCE OF HIGUERA: JEWS AND PHOENICIANSCHAPTER 10. DIEGO DE URREADIEGO DE URREA BETWEEN ITALY AND NORTH AFRICAURREA IN SPAINDIEGO DE URREA AND THE LEAD BOOKSURREA THE HISTORIANDIPLOMATIC MISSIONSDIEGO DE URREA IN NAPLESFRANCISCO DE GURMENDICHAPTER 11. MARCOS DOBELIOTHE SACROMONTE SEEKS ARABIC TRANSLATORSAN ARABIST IN ITALY AND SPAINMARCOS DOBELIO AND THE ARABIC MANUSCRIPTS OF EL ESCORIALMARCOS DOBELIO’S ARABIC BOOKSA PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF ABŪ L-FIDĀ’’S HISTORYA TRANSLATION OF A MEDICAL WORK AND A GRAMMARDOBELIO’S PAPERSCHAPTER 12. MARCOS DOBELIO AND THE BOOKS FROM PASTRANA: THE ISLAMIC CONTENT OF THE LEAD BOOKSWRITING AND NECROMANCYPASTRANATHE PASTRANA BOOKSGENEALOGIES, RELIGIOUS POLEMIC, AND STORIES OF THE PROPHETSAL-BAKRĪ’S KITĀB AL-ANWĀRISLAMIC TEXTS FOR A MORISCO AUDIENCEMUHAMMAD ALGUAZIR OR DIEGO ALGUACILCHAPTER 13. IS THE ARABIC OF THE LEAD BOOKS THE LANGUAGE OF ISLAM?THE LAMINAE GRANATENSES AND THE VATICAN EXPERTSARABIC IN ROMEMOHAMMEDAN TERMSCHAPTER 14. FATHER TOMÁS DE LEÓN AND THE MARQUIS OF MONDÉJAR: A LEARNED CORRESPONDENCE GASPAR IBÁÑEZ DE SEGOVIA, MARQUIS OF AGRÓPOLI AND OF MONDÉJARFATHER TOMÁS DE LEÓNWORKS BY TOMÁS DE LEÓNFATHER TIRSO GONZÁLEZ DE SANTALLATOMÁS DE LEÓN AND THE SACROMONTE ABBEY TOMÁS DE LEÓN, ORIENTALISTNETWORKS OF ARABISTSMARTÍN VÁZQUEZ SIRUELAA CIRCLE OF ORIENTALISTS?CHAPTER 15. THE ARABIC LANGUAGE AND ORIENTALISM IN SPAINLEARNING ARABIC: THE PROBLEM OF TEXTSLEARNING ARABIC: THE NEW MATERIALSORIENTALIST BOOKS IN SPAINCHAPTER 16. AL-ANDALUS IN THE HISTORY OF SPAINAL-ANDALUS: PART OF THE HISTORY OF SPAIN?DIEGO PÉREZ DE MESAARABIC SOURCES FOR WRITING THE HISTORY OF SPAIN: LUIS DEL MÁRMOLDIEGO DE GUADIXTHE RELICS OF AL-ANDALUSCONTINUITIES AND RUPTURESPROBLEMS OF INTERPRETATIONCHAPTER 17. THE ARABIC LANGUAGE AS A TOOL FOR SCHOLARSHIPIN DEFENSE OF ORIENTAL LANGUAGESARABIC SCRIPTMANUSCRIPTS AND TRANSLATIONSCHAPTER 18. THE ORIENT IN SPAINPROBLEMS OF CHRONOLOGY: THE HIJRATHE ORIENT IN SPAIN: JUDAISMTHE ORIENT IN SPAIN: EGYPTEGYPTIAN CHRONOLOGY“THE PERVERSE DOMESTIC ENEMIES OF THE CHURCH” EPILOGUESOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHYILLUSTRATIONSINDEX