Religious Polemics of the Muslims of Late Medieval Christian Iberia

Mònica Colominas Aparicio, Ph.D. (2016), University of Amsterdam, is Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (Department I), and a core member of the Institute's interdisciplinary project Convivencia: Iberian to Global Dynamics, 500-1750.

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresNote on Transliteration, Conventions and AbbreviationsIntroductionMudejar PolemicsScholarship on the Mudejars and Their LiteratureMain Questions and Chapter Overview1 The Connection between Religious Polemics and Notions of Identity and Religious Authority among the MudejarsIntroduction1.1 The Sacred Law, or Sharīʿa1.2 The Relationship of the Mudejars with Jews and Christians1.3 The Mudejar AljamasConclusions2 Concepts and Methods for the Study of Religious Authority and Identity in the Religious Polemics of the MudejarsIntroduction2.1 Recent Approaches to Religious Polemics2.2 Towards a Definition of Mudejar Polemics2.3 Theoretical Framework and MethodsConclusions3 Previous Research and Identification of the Mudejar Polemical Sources to be Discussed in the Present Study3.1 Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Scholarly Views on Mudejar Manuscripts of Religious Polemics3.2 Mudejar Polemical Sources3.3 The Sources of the Kitāb al-Mujādala3.4 The Place of the Copying of the Kitāb al-Mujādala: The Geographical Location of PiṭrūlaConclusions4 Muslim Literature of Religious PolemicsIntroduction4.1 al-Andalus4.2 Christian Iberia4.3 The Maghreb4.4 The MashriqConclusions5 Mudejar Polemics with the JewsIntroduction5.1 The Taʾyīd5.2 The Kitāb al-Mujādala5.3 The “demandas” [Questions]Conclusions6 Mudejar Polemics with the ChristiansIntroduction6.1 The Kitāb al-Mujādala6.2 Religious Authority in the Kitāb al-Mujādala6.3 An Ethical-Centred Model for Islam in the Kitāb al-Mujādala6.4 Political Philosophy in the Kitāb al-MujādalaConclusions7 Mudejar Polemics as a Discursive TraditionIntroduction7.1 Mudejar Identity in Polemics7.2 Religious Leadership7.3 Notions of Minority Identity and Government among the MudejarsConclusionsConclusionsManuscript Description of the Kitāb al-Mujādala (MS AF 58)Codicological DescriptionBibliographySource OverviewAnnexMS BNE 4944, ff. 1r–36r: Transcription and Rendering into Modern SpanishMS L 536, ff. 123v–125r: Transcription and Rendering into Modern SpanishReferencesIndex of Names and Places