The Iberian Qur’an: From the Middle Ages to Modern Times

Mercedes García-Arenal, Gerard Wiegers

Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, Sep 20, 2022 - Religion - 558 pages

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.

Contents

• A Survey: 1
• I Latin and the Development of Literal Translation: 25
• The Quran and the Laws of Muḥammad in Medieval Christian Eyes: 49
• A Mozarabic Quran? Some Reflexions on the Evidence: 69
• Projecting the Quran into the Past A Reassessment of Juan de Segovias Disputes with Muslims in Medina del Campo 1431: 107
• Newly Discovered Revised Versions: 133
• From Arabic to Aljamía: 149
• Copies in Arabic Containing three Selections of Suras: 165
• Dialectal Variations in Aljamiado Translations of the Quran: 199
• Fragmentary Copies with the Suras in Reverse Order: 217
• The Inquisition and the Search for Qurans: 245
• III Antialcoranes Polemicists Converts Scholars: 283
• Preaching Polemic and Quran Joan Martí de Figuerolas Lumbre de fe contra el Alcorán: 319
• Figuerolas Lumbre de fe and the Arabic Quran: 343
• Translations from Arabic of Iberian Origin in Egidio da Viterbos Quran: 399
• Exegetic Annotations in the Quran of Bellús Valencia c 1518: 421
• IV Modern Times: 441
• Quran Poetry and Exile in the Court of Isabel II: 469
• The Quran in the Spanish Philippines: 499
• Notes on Contributors: 533
• Index: 537

About the author

Mercedes García-Arenal, Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain, and Gerard Wiegers, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Iberian Qur’an: From the Middle Ages to Modern Times; Volume 3 of The European Qur'an
• Editors: Mercedes García-Arenal, Gerard Wiegers
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2022
• ISBN: 311077884X, 9783110778847
• Length: 558 pages
• Subjects: Religion / General; Religion / Islam / General; Religion / Islam / Koran & Sacred Writings; Social Science / Regional Studies