Interreligious Encounters in Polemics between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and Beyond
Title | Interreligious Encounters in Polemics between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and Beyond PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2019-06-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004401792 |
This book focuses on polemical religious texts of Iberia’s long fifteenth century, a period characterized by both social violence and cultural exchange. It highlights how polemical texts often reveal the interconnected nature of social and cultural intimacy, promoting dialogue and cultural transfer.
Polemical Encounters
Title | Polemical Encounters PDF eBook |
Author | Mercedes García-Arenal |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 430 |
Release | 2018-12-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0271082976 |
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 contributions from a range of academic disciplines, this paradigm-shifting book sheds new light on the cultural and intellectual dynamics of the conflicts that marked relations among these religious communities in the Iberian Peninsula and beyond. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Antoni Biosca i Bas, Thomas E. Burman, Mònica Colominas Aparicio, John Dagenais, Óscar de la Cruz, Borja Franco Llopis, Linda G. Jones, Daniel J. Lasker, Davide Scotto, Teresa Soto, Ryan Szpiech, Pieter Sjoerd van Koningsveld, and Carsten Wilke.
Special Issue: Interreligious Encounters in Polemics Between Christians, Jews and Muslims in Iberia and Beyond
Title | Special Issue: Interreligious Encounters in Polemics Between Christians, Jews and Muslims in Iberia and Beyond PDF eBook |
Author | Mercedes García-Arenal |
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Pages | |
Release | 2018 |
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The Religious Polemics of the Muslims of Late Medieval Christian Iberia
Title | The Religious Polemics of the Muslims of Late Medieval Christian Iberia PDF eBook |
Author | Mònica Colominas Aparicio |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 411 |
Release | 2018-04-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004363610 |
The Religious Polemics of the Muslims of Late Medieval Christian Iberia examines the corpus of polemical literature against the Christians and the Jews of the protected Muslims (Mudejars). Commonly portrayed as communities in cultural and religious decay, Mònica Colominas convincingly proves that the discourses against the Christians and the Jews in Mudejar treatises provided authoritative frameworks of Islamic normativity which helped to legitimize the residence of their communities in the Christian territories. Colominas argues that, while the primary aim of the polemics was to refute the views of their religious opponents, Mudejar treatises were also a tool used to advance Islamic knowledge and to strengthen the government and social cohesion of their communities.
Jews and Muslims Made Visible in Christian Iberia and Beyond, 14th to 18th Centuries
Title | Jews and Muslims Made Visible in Christian Iberia and Beyond, 14th to 18th Centuries PDF eBook |
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Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2019-05-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004395709 |
This volume aims to show through various case studies how the interrelations between Jews, Muslims and Christians in Iberia were negotiated in the field of images, objects and architecture during the Later Middle Ages and Early Modernity.
Forced Conversion in Christianity, Judaism and Islam
Title | Forced Conversion in Christianity, Judaism and Islam PDF eBook |
Author | Mercedes García-Arenal |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 2019-10-21 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 900441682X |
Forced Conversion in Christianity, Judaism and Islam explores the legal and theological grounds through which Christians, Jews, and Muslims sanctioned and reacted to forcible conversion in premodern Iberia and related settings.
Art of Estrangement
Title | Art of Estrangement PDF eBook |
Author | Pamela Anne Patton |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0271053836 |
"Examines the influential role of visual images in reinforcing the efforts of Spain's Christian-ruled kingdoms to renegotiate the role of their Jewish minority following the territorial expansions of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries"--Provided by publisher.