Polemical Encounters : Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and Beyond / Mercedes Garcia-Arenal and Gerard Wiegers, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

García-Arenal, Mercedes, editor.

Wiegers, Gerard Albert, 1959- editor.

Series:

Iberian encounter and exchange, 475-1755 ; Volume 2.

Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475-1755 ; Volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and other religions--Iberian Peninsula--Islam--History--Congresses.

Islam--Relations--Christianity--History--Congresses.

Islam--Relations--Judaism--History--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (434 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

University Park, PA : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. The Medieval Iberian World

1. “When I Argue with Them in Hebrew and Aramaic”: Tathlīth al-waḥdānīyah, Ramon Martí, and Proofs of Jesus’s Messiahship

2. Qurʾānic Quotations in Latin: Translation, Tradition, and Fiction in Polemical Literature

3. The Mudejar Polemic Taʾ yīd al-Milla and Conversion between Islam and Judaism in the Christian Territories of the Iberian Peninsula

4. “Sermo ad conversos, christianos et sarracenos”: Polemical and Rhetorical Strategies in the Sermons of Vincent Ferrer to Mixed Audiences of Christians and Muslims

Part II. Around the Forced Conversions

5. Jewish Anti-Christian Polemics in Light of Mass Conversion to Christianity

6. Theology of the Laws and Anti-Judaizing Polemics in Hernando de Talavera’s Católica impugnación

7. The Double Polemic of Martín de Figuerola’s Lumbre de fe contra el Alcorán

8. Art of Conversion? The Visual Policies of the Jesuits, Dominicans, and Mercedarians in Valencia

9. Marcos Dobelio’s Polemics against the Authenticity of the Granadan Lead Books in Light of the Original Arabic Sources

Part III. Mediterranean and European Transfers

10. Prisons and Polemics: Captivity, Confinement, and Medieval Interreligious Encounter

11. The Libre de bons amonestaments by ʿAbd Allāh al-Tarjumān: A Guidebook for Old and New Christians

12. Poetics and Polemics: Ibrahim Taybili’s Anti-Christian Polemical Treatise in Verse

13 Torah Alone: Protestantism as Model and Target of Sephardi Religious Polemics in the Early Modern Netherlands

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780271082998

0271082992

OCLC:

1309048214