Islamic literature in Spanish and Aljamiado : : Yça of Segovia (fl. 1450), his antecendents and successors / / Gerard Wiegers.

• Superior document: Medieval Iberian Peninsula Series ; v.8
• VerfasserIn: Wiegers, Gerard, 1959-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill Academic Publishers,, 1993.
• Year of Publication: 1993
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval Iberian Peninsula Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 303 pages)

This important work is an historical study of the Islamic writings in Spanish and Aljamiado (Spanish in Arabic script) of the Muslim minorities in medieval Christian Spain, the Mudejars and Moriscos. On the basis of both Christian sources, such as archival documents and the writings of John of Segovia, and Islamic sources in Spanish and Arabic, this book focuses on the life and writings of Yça Gidelli (ca 1450), religious authority of the Mudejar community of Segovia (Castile). Of crucial importance for the history of Islamic Spanish literature, Yça's best-known work is a Spanish translation of the Qur'ān made at the request of bishop John of Segovia (d. 1458). This study follows the early history of Islamic writings in the vernacular (13th-14th centuries), continues with a description of Yça's writings and biography, and finally deals with his influence on Moriscos in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Table of Contents

Ch. I. Previous Studies of the History of Islamic Spanish Literature and the Role of Yca of Segovia -- Ch. II. The Earliest Traces of Islamic Spanish Literature in Al-Andalus -- Ch. III. The Use of Romance as a Medium of Written Expression Among the Mudejars Until 1456 -- Ch. IV. Yca of Segovia: Life and Works -- Ch. V. Yca's Influence on Islamic Spanish Literature -- Ch. VI. Yca of Segovia and the History of Islamic Spanish Literature -- Appendix 1: List of Islamic Spanish texts from Spain of which either the date or the author is known -- Appendix 2. Letter of Yca to Juan de Segovia d.d. 24 April 1454 and English translation -- Appendix 3. Breviario Sumni, prologue -- Appendix 4. Breviario Sumni, chapter 58, on the signs of the end of the present age" -- Appendix 5. Madrid B.N. 5252: Tratado i deklaracion i gia para segir i mantener el-addin del-aliclam, f. 2v-34v.