Interreligious Encounters in Polemics between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and Beyond

Author:   Mercedes Garcia-Arenal ,  Gerard A. Wiegers ,  Ryan Szpiech
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Pages:   343
Publication Date:   18 July 2019
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Author:   Mercedes Garcia-Arenal ,  Gerard A. Wiegers ,  Ryan Szpiech
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Weight:   0.553kg
ISBN:  

9789004401761


ISBN 10:   9004401768
Pages:   343
Publication Date:   18 July 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Introduction Interreligious Encounters in Polemics between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and Beyond Mercedes Garcia-Arenal and Gerard Wiegers 1 Ne De Fide Presumant Disputare: Legal Regulations of Interreligious Debate and Disputation in the Middle Ages John Tolan 2 The Brighter Side of Medieval Christian-Jewish Polemical Encounters: Transfer of Medical Knowledge in the Midi (Twelfth-Fourteenth Centuries) Gad Freudenthal 3 Better Muslim or Jew? The Controversy Around Conversion across Minorities in Fifteenth-Century Castile Ana Echevarria 4 The Spirit of the Letter: The Hebrew Inscription in Bermejo's Piedat Revisited Yonatan Glazer-Eytan 5 Forgotten Witnesses: The Illustrations of Ms Escorial, I.I.3 and the Dispute over the Biblias Romanceadas Rosa M. Rodriguez Porto 6 From Christian Polemic to a Jewish-Converso Dialogue Jewish Skepticism and Rabbinic-Christian Traditions in the Scrutinium Scripturarum Yosi Yisraeli 7 The Rabbi and the Mancebo: Arevalo and the Location of Affinities in the Fifteenth Century Eleazar Gutwirth 8 The Virus in the Language: Alonso De Cartagena's Deconstruction of the Limpieza De Sangre in Defensorium Unitatis Christianae (1450) Maria Laura Giordano 9 Apologetic Glosses-Venues for Encounters: Annotations on Abraham in the Latin Translations of the Qur'an Katarzyna K. Starczewska 10 Vox Populi: Carnal Blood, Spiritual Milk, and the Debate Surrounding the Immaculate Conception, ca. 1600 Felipe Pereda Index

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Mercedes Garcia-Arenal is Full Professor at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC, Spain), a position she has held since 1990. Her research focuses on the religious history of Iberia and the Muslim West, particularly on religious minorities: conversion, polemics, messianism, religious dissidence. She is Principal Investigator of the Synergy project EuQu. Gerard Wiegers is Full Professor of History of Religions and Comparative Religion at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on the Mudejar and Morisco history and religious life and on the history of Muslim and Jewish minorities in Europe in general. He is, in cooperation with Pieter Sjoerd van Koningsveld, preparing a critical edition of the Granada Lead Books. Ryan Szpiech is Associate Professor of Spanish and Judaic Studies in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Department of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. He has published on medieval polemical literature, the history of religious conversion, and the cultural significance of translation between Arabic, Hebrew, and the Romance Languages in the later Middle Ages.

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