Gerard Wiegers
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Address: University of Amsterdam
Faculty of Humanities
Department of History, European Studies and Religious Studies
Bushuis | Oostindisch Huis, Room D 107A
1012 CX Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Address: University of Amsterdam
Faculty of Humanities
Department of History, European Studies and Religious Studies
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1012 CX Amsterdam
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historical treasure of great value that was the object of the
present lecture by two Dutch scholars at the Palace of the
Archbishop in Granada, on Tuesday March 19, at 19.00 hours.
The treasure we are speaking of consists of Arabic texts on a
sheet of parchment and on numerous small tablets of lead,
which were discovered in Granada, at the end of the 16th
century, in the tower of the old Friday Mosque and in caves
of the “Valparaíso” hill, which henceforth became called
“Sacromonte”. These Arabic texts are among the very last
literary productions of the Granadan Moriscos, who were of
Andalusi Muslim origin and who continued to live in Spain,
often attached to their ancient Islamic faith in secret. With
the permission of the Archbishop of Granada, the Dutch
scholars, who are specialized in the History of Religions in
general, and especially in the history of Islam, including the
religious history of Muslims living in as minorities in
Christian Spain, are preparing a study, edition and
translation of these sources, which have been the object of
heated discussions in the 17th century and which have
regained international academic interest in the present time.
Professors Van Koningsveld (Emeritus Professor of Islamic
Studies at Leiden University) and Wiegers (Professor of
Comparative Religious Studies at the University of
Amsterdam), present herewith a report of their research
project and shed new light on the religious messages of these
enigmatic texts.
historical treasure of great value that was the object of the
present lecture by two Dutch scholars at the Palace of the
Archbishop in Granada, on Tuesday March 19, at 19.00 hours.
The treasure we are speaking of consists of Arabic texts on a
sheet of parchment and on numerous small tablets of lead,
which were discovered in Granada, at the end of the 16th
century, in the tower of the old Friday Mosque and in caves
of the “Valparaíso” hill, which henceforth became called
“Sacromonte”. These Arabic texts are among the very last
literary productions of the Granadan Moriscos, who were of
Andalusi Muslim origin and who continued to live in Spain,
often attached to their ancient Islamic faith in secret. With
the permission of the Archbishop of Granada, the Dutch
scholars, who are specialized in the History of Religions in
general, and especially in the history of Islam, including the
religious history of Muslims living in as minorities in
Christian Spain, are preparing a study, edition and
translation of these sources, which have been the object of
heated discussions in the 17th century and which have
regained international academic interest in the present time.
Professors Van Koningsveld (Emeritus Professor of Islamic
Studies at Leiden University) and Wiegers (Professor of
Comparative Religious Studies at the University of
Amsterdam), present herewith a report of their research
project and shed new light on the religious messages of these
enigmatic texts.
fuerte polémica en el siglo XVII, y al presente se presentan de nuevo como un tema de gran interés por parte de la comunidad científico internacional. Los profesores Van
Koningsveld (Profesor emérito de Estudios Islámicos en la Universidad de Leiden) y Wiegers (Profesor de las Ciencias de las Religiones en la Universidad de Amsterdam), presentan aquí un informe científico sobre su proyecto y echan nueva luz sobre el discurso religioso de estos textos enigmáticos.
First published as volume 24, No. 1–3 (2018) of Medieval Encounters, this volume brings together ten studies, as well as an introduction, on medieval polemics and interreligious encounters in medieval Iberia and beyond. A preface to the new edition and a comprehensive index have been added.
Contents: "Preface to the New Edition" (Ryan Szpiech);
"Introduction: Interreligious Encounters in Polemics between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and Beyond" (Mercedes García-Arenal and Gerard Wiegers);
"Ne De Fide Presumant Disputare: Legal Regulations of Interreligious Debate and Disputation in the Middle Ages" (John Tolan); "The Brighter Side of Medieval Christian-Jewish Polemical Encounters: Transfer of Medical Knowledge in the Midi (Twelfth–Fourteenth Centuries)" (Gad Freudenthal); "Better Muslim or Jew? The Controversy around Conversion across Minorities in Fifteenth-Century Castile" (Ana Echevarría); "The Spirit of the Letter: The Hebrew Inscription in Bermejo’s Piedat Revisited" (Yonatan Glazer-Eytan); "Forgotten Witnesses: The Illustrations of Ms Escorial, I.I.3 and the Dispute over the Biblias Romanceadas" (Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto); "From Christian Polemic to a Jewish-Converso Dialogue
Jewish Skepticism and Rabbinic-Christian Traditions in the Scrutinium Scripturarum" (Yosi Yisraeli); "The Rabbi and the Mancebo: Arévalo and the Location of Affinities in the Fifteenth Century" (Eleazar Gutwirth); "The Virus in the Language: Alonso De Cartagena’s Deconstruction of the “Limpieza De Sangre” in Defensorium Unitatis Christianae (1450)" (Maria Laura Giordano); "Apologetic Glosses—Venues for Encounters: Annotations on Abraham in the Latin Translations of the Qurʾān" (Katarzyna K. Starczewska); "Vox Populi: Carnal Blood, Spiritual Milk, and the Debate Surrounding the Immaculate Conception, ca. 1600" (Felipe Pereda); "Index"
"Review Essay about The Feeling of History. Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia by Charles Hirshkind" (Fernando Rodríguez Mediano); "Review of War and Memory at the Time of the Fifth Crusade, written by Megan Cassidy-Welch" (Nicholas Paul); "Review of Cities of Strangers: Making Lives in Medieval Europe, written by Miri Rubin" (Tanya Stabler Miller)