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.

• Superior document: Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions, volume 142
• Author: García-Arenal, Mercedes.
• TeilnehmendeR: Rodríguez Mediano, Fernando.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, 2013.
• Any de publicació: 2013
• Idioma: English; Spanish
• Col·lecció: Numen Book Series 142.
• Descripció física: 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.

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...