Visions of Deliverance : Moriscos and the Politics of Prophecy in the Early Modern Mediterranean / Mayte Green-Mercado.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green-Mercado, Mayte, Author.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Relations--Islam.

Catholic Church.

Moriscos--Prophecies.

Moriscos.

Moriscos--Mediterranean Region--History--16th century.

Muslims--Spain--History--16th century.

Muslims.

Prophecy--Islam.

Prophecy.

Prophecy--Political aspects--Spain.

Islam--Spain--History--16th century.

Islam.

Islam--Relations--Catholic Church.

Spain--History--Prophecies.

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In Visions of Deliverance, Mayte Green-Mercado traces the circulation of Muslim and crypto-Muslim apocalyptic texts known as joferes through formal and informal networks of merchants, Sufis, and other channels of diffusion among Muslims and Christians across the Mediterranean from Constantinople and Venice to Morisco towns in eastern Spain. The movement of these prophecies from the eastern to the western edges of the Mediterranean illuminates strategies of Morisco cultural and political resistance, reconstructing both productive and oppositional interactions and exchanges between Muslims and Christians in the early modern Mediterranean.Challenging a historiography that has primarily understood Morisco apocalyptic thought as the expression of a defeated group that was conscious of the loss of their culture and identity, Green-Mercado depicts Moriscos not simply as helpless victims of Christian oppression but as political actors whose use of end-times discourse helped define and construct their society anew. Visions of Deliverance helps us understand the implications of confessionalization, forced conversion, and assimilation in the early modern period and the intellectual and theological networks that shaped politics and identity across the Mediterranean in this era.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliterations and Citations

Introduction

1. Christian Visionary or Muslim Prophet? Re-Creating Identities in Late Spanish Islam

2. The Return of Muslim Granada: Prophecy and Martyrdom in the Alpujarras Revolt (1568-1570)

3. Ottoman Rome: Apocalyptic Prophecies in the Mediterranean (1570-1580)

4. "The Grand Morisco Conspiracy": Prophecy and Rebellion Plots in Valencia and Aragon (1570-1582)

5. Prophetic Fabrications of a Morisco Informant: Gil Pérez and the Moriscos of Valencia

6. Prophecy as Diplomacy: The Moriscos and Henry IV of France

Epilogue

Appendix A: First Prognostication of the War of Granada

Appendix B: Second Prognostication of the War of Granada

Appendix C: Third Prognostication of the War of Granada

Appendix D: Prophecy of Fr. Juan de Rokasiya

Appendix E: Account of the Scandals That Will Take Place at the End of Times in the Island of Spain

Appendix F: Prophecy of St. Isidore

Appendix G: Plaint of Spain

Appendix H: Muḥammad's Prophecy about Spain

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9781501741487

1501741489

9781501741470

1501741470

OCLC:

1104916525