The Orient in Spain : : converted Muslims, the forged lead books of Granada, and the rise of orientalism / / by Mercedes García-Arenal and Fernando Rodríguez Mediano ; translated by Consuelo López-Morillas.

Taking as its main subject a series of notorious forgeries by Muslim converts in sixteenth-century Granada (including an apocryphal gospel in Arabic), this book studies the emotional, cultural and religious world view of the Morisco minority and the complexity of its identity, caught between the wis...

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Superior document:Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions, volume 142
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden : : Brill,, 2013.
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Spanish
Series:Numen Book Series 142.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 475 pages) :; illustrations
Notes:Translation of: Un oriente español. Madrid : Marcial Pons Historia, 2010; corrected and expanded, with new research and a new bibliography.
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