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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 wish
to respect Arabic cultural traditions,
and the pressures of evangelization and efforts at integration
into “Old Christian” society. Orientalist scholarship in Early Modern Spain,
in which an interest in Oriental languages, mainly Arabic,
was linked to important historiographical questions, such as the uses
and value of Arabic sources and the problem of the integration of al-Andalus
within a providentialist history of Spain, is also addressed.
The authors consider these issues not only from a local point of view,
but from a wider perspective, in an attempt to understand
how these matters related to more general European intellectual
and religious developments.
