The Iberian Qur’an : : From the Middle Ages to Modern Times / / ed. by Mercedes García-Arenal, Gerard Wiegers.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Arias Torres, Juan Pablo,; Bernabé Pons, Luis F.,; Boyano Guerra, Isabel,; Burnett, Charles,; Cecini, Ulisse,; Donoso, Isaac,; García-Arenal, Mercedes,; Lappin, Anthony John,; Rodríguez Iglesias, Adrián,; Rodríguez Mediano, Fernando,; Roza Candás, Pablo,; Scotto, Davide,; Sellin, Maxime,; Starczewska, Katarzyna K.,; Szpiech, Ryan,; Tottoli, Roberto,; Wiegers, Gerard A.,; Witcombe, Teresa,
• HerausgeberIn: García-Arenal, Mercedes,; Wiegers, Gerard,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The European Qur'an , 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 550 p.)

Due to the long presence of Muslims in Islamic territories (Al-Andalus and Granada) and of Muslims minorities in the Christians parts, the Iberian Peninsula provides a fertile soil for the study of the Qur’an and Qur’an translations made by both Muslims and Christians. From the mid-twelfth century to at least the end of the seventeenth, the efforts undertaken by Christian scholars and churchmen, by converts, by Muslims (both Mudejars and Moriscos) to transmit, interpret and translate the Holy Book are of the utmost importance for the understanding of Islam in Europe. This book reflects on a context where Arabic books and Arabic speakers who were familiar with the Qur’an and its exegesis coexisted with Christian scholars. The latter not only intended to convert Muslims, and polemize with them but also to adquire solid knowledge about them and about Islam. Qur’ans were seized during battle, bought, copied, translated, transmitted, recited, and studied. The different features and uses of the Qur’an on Iberian soil, its circulation as well as the lives and works of those who wrote about it and the responses of their audiences, are the object of this book.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- The Iberian Qur’an and the Qur’an in Iberia: A Survey -- I Latin and the Development of Literal Translation -- Robert of Ketton and Mark of Toledo and the Rise and Development of the Literal Translation of the Qur’an -- The Qur’an and the ‘Laws of Muḥammad’ in Medieval Christian Eyes -- A Mozarabic Qur’an? Some Reflexions on the Evidence -- Projecting the Qur’an into the Past. A Reassessment of Juan de Segovia’s Disputes with Muslims in Medina del Campo (1431) -- Germanus de Silesia’s Qur’an Translation in the MS K-III-1 of the El Escorial Library: Newly Discovered Revised Versions -- II Muslims in Christian Spain: From Arabic to Aljamía -- The Office of the Four Chief Judges of Mamluk Cairo and their views on Translating the Qur’an in the Early Sixteenth Century: Iberian Islam in a Global Context -- New Models of Qur’an Abridgment among the Mudejars and Moriscos: Copies in Arabic Containing three Selections of Suras -- Dialectal Variations in Aljamiado Translations of the Qur’an -- Morisco Methods for Memorizing the Qur’an: Fragmentary Copies with the Suras in Reverse Order -- The Inquisition and the Search for Qur’ans -- III Antialcoranes. Polemicists, Converts, Scholars -- Sounding the Qur’an: The Rhetoric of Transliteration in the Antialcoranes -- Preaching, Polemic, and Qur’an. Joan Martí de Figuerola’s Lumbre de fe contra el Alcorán -- Quoting the Original: Figuerola’s Lumbre de fe and the Arabic Qur’an -- Translations from Arabic of Iberian Origin in Egidio da Viterbo’s Qur’an -- To Translate is to Interpret: Exegetic Annotations in the Qur’an of Bellús (Valencia c. 1518) -- IV Modern Times -- Rediscovering the Qur’an in Nineteenth-Century Spain: Allure and Aversion in the Shadow of A. B. Kazimirski’s French Edition -- José Filiberto Portillo: Qur’an, Poetry and Exile in the Court of Isabel II -- The Qur’an in the Spanish Philippines -- Notes on Contributors -- Index