Mercedes García‐arenal
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3597378 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mercedes García‐arenal |
| NOMBRES | Mercedes |
| APELLIDO | García‐arenal |
| FIRMA | ARENAL M G |
| AFILIACIONES | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9592-3585 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Divided by blood
This article argues that the mass religious conversions that took place in early-modern Iberia from the end of the fourteenth century had enormous consequences, one of which was the increasing racialisation of religion. Jewish and Muslim minorities were forced to receive baptism, and although in principle the Church made no distinction among people who had been baptised, in practice the presence of large numbers of recent converts to Catholicism …
The European Qur’an
In this essay I present the work of the ERC Synergy project “The European Qur’an.” This project studies the place of the Muslim holy book in European cultural and religious historiography (ca. 1150–1850), situating European perceptions of the Qur’an and of Islam in the evolving religious, political, and intellectual landscape of this long period. Through a few specific examples of my own personal research, I aim to show how following the individu…
Introduction. Processions and Royal Entries in the Petrification of Space during the Medieval and Early Modern Periods
Dossier con las presentaciones del congreso Processions and Royal Entries in the Petrification of Space during the Medieval and Early. Modern Periods, Organizado por Ana Rodríguez y Mercedes García Arenal em el Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales - CSIC, Madrid, 23-24 de septiembre 2019. Este artículo está sujeto a una licencia CC BY 4.0
Natalia Muchnik Les prisons de la foi. L’enfermement des minorités ( xvi e - xviii e siècle) Paris, PUF, 2019, 360 p
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Reading Against the Grain, Readings of Substitution
Polemical Comparisons in the Apology against the Christian Religion by Muhamad Alguazir (c. 1610)
This essay analyses the comparisons made in the Apology against the articles of the Christian Religion by Muhamad Alguazir (c. 1610). Alguazir, a Morisco from Pastrana (Spain), was one of the Moriscos living at the court of sultan Mawlay Zaydan (1608–1627). The polemical treatise he wrote was sent to Maurice of Orange shortly after the conclusion of a treaty of friendship between Zaydan and the Dutch (in 1610) and translated into Latin. The polem…
The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe
Reflecting on humanity’s shared desire for certainty, this book explores the discrepancies between religious adherence and inner belief specific to the early modern period, a time marred by forced conversions and inquisition.
Mixed marriage, conversion, and the family
Scholars of interfaith tolerance and conflict in the pre-modern Mediterranean have largely overlooked the history of mixed marriage, that is, the binding union between men and women from different religious communities. Concentrating on pre-modern Iberia but looking as well at wider Mediterranean contexts, the collection of essays gathered here examines mixed marriage in relation to religious conversion and the family
The Perennial Importance of Mary's Virginity and Jesus’ Divinity
This paper studies the little-known Spanish Qur'anic translations included within Christian works of polemics that were produced in Iberia in the first quarter of the sixteenth century. Such fragments are an important testimony of otherwise rare translations of the Qur'an into Iberian vernacular languages. This study focuses on the Qur'anic material cited by authors connected to Martín García, Bishop of Barcelona (c. 845–928/1441–1521) in polemic…
Interreligious Encounters in Polemics between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and Beyond
The Early Modern Hispanic World
Iberia stands at the center of key trends in Atlantic and world histories, largely because Portugal and Spain were the first European kingdoms to 'go global'. The Early Modern Hispanic World engages with new ways of thinking about the early modern Hispanic past, as a field of study that has grown exponentially in recent years. It focuses predominantly on questions of how people understood the rapidly changing world in which they lived - how they …
«La Ley de Abraham Catholico». Juan Gabriel, traductor del Corán para Martín de Figuerola y Egidio de Viterbo
Este artículo se propone estudiar las similitudes entre la traducción latina del Corán encargada por el cardenal Egidio de Viterbo en 1518 y las citas coránicas incluidas en un tratado de polémica titulado Lumbre de fe contra el Alcorán (Valencia, 1521) escrito por un predicador, Fray Martín de Figuerola. Estas similitudes serán destacadas para corroborar la hipótesis de una autoría común a ambas traducciones en la persona de un mudéjar convertid…
Introducción. Taqiyya
Esta introducción enmarca las contribuciones a la sección monográfica y las engarza en torno a las propuestas según las cuales el disimulo y su legitimación teórica son indisolubles de la tensión escatológica y mesiánica, y que requieren la convicción de pertenecer a un grupo aparte, superior, que espera o planea otro tiempo futuro
A Catholic Muslim Prophet
This contribution to a symposium "on the consequence of blur" deals with the case of Agustín de Ribera and his followers in sixteenth-century Castile. Inquisition trial records report the appearance, around 1535 among the Moriscos (Catholic converts of Muslim origin) in Toledo, of a boy who had ecstasies and visions in which he traveled to the Hereafter and received revelations. Though considered by his followers and also by the Inquisition a pro…
Introduction
Ever since Clifford Geertz urged the "blurring of genres" in the social sciences, many scholars have considered the crossing of disciplinary boundaries a healthy alternative to rigidly maintaining them. But what precisely does the metaphor of "blurring" imply? By unpacking the varieties of visual experiences that are normally grouped under this rubric, this essay seeks to provide some precision to our understanding of the implications of fuzzines…
Los libros de los moriscos y los eruditos orientales
Pretendemos, en este trabajo, mostrar cómo la erudición orientalista de árabes cristianos venidos a España desde Oriente (a través de Italia) se aproximó a la literatura de los moriscos, cómo la entendió y para qué la utilizó. Mostramos que estos eruditos, de entre los que elegimos los casos de Marcos Dobelio y Miguel Casiri, no pudieron realizar su trabajo orientalista, que se basa en una fuerte vinculación con los manuscritos árabes de la Bibli…
The Religious Identity of the Arabic Language and the Affair of the Lead Books of the Sacromonte of Granada
This article deals, in the first place, with the religious identity of the Arabic language as defined by the ongoing debate, in 16th-17th century Spain, about its identification with Islam. Many new Christians of Muslim origin (Moriscos) tried to break this identification in an effort to salvage part of their culture, and specially the language, by separating it from Islam. I will argue that the Morisco forgery known as the Lead Books of the Sacr…
Religious Dissent and Minorities
In 1502, having expelled the Jews from Spain in 1492—the same year in which the conquest of the Islamic kingdom of Granada had been completed— Ferdinand and Isabel issued a decree ordering all Muslims living in the kingdom of Castile to convert to Christianity. This new edict reproduced almost to the letter the law that had offered Spanish Jews a choice between expulsion and conversion, but it differed in that the conditions it set for leaving th…
Ahmad al-Mansur
The main protagonists at the battle of Alcazar 2 ABD AL-MALIK AND AHMAD BEFORE THE BATTLE OF ALCAZAR Algiers Abd al-Malik's propaganda Muley Ahmad al-Mansur 3 SIXTEENTH-CENTURY MOROCCO: ITS POPULATION, CITIES, RELIGIOUS ELITES AND ARMY The population of Morocco:Arabs and Berbers The cities The 'ulama The Sufi brotherhoods Qadiriyya and Shadhiliyya Sharifism The army 4 RENEGADES, MORISCOS AND JEWS Renegades Andalusians or Moriscos Jews 5 DIPLOMACY…
Messianism and Puritanical Reform
This is a book about revolutionary movements of a messianic and millenarian character, led by a "mahdi", in Islamic terms, a charismatic messianic leader. It also addresses the question of mediation between God and men and the political repercussions of this question in the history of the pre-Modern Muslim West. Mahdism is considered in relation to sufi ideas, terminology and symbols which shape notions of authority and of legitimate power when c…
The Ornament of the World
El entorno de los plomos
Este artículo intenta aportar nuevas ideas acerca de la autoría de los Plomos del Sacromonte y de sus objetivos poniéndolos, por un lado, en el contexto político de los años en los que fueron realizados y por otro en conexión con la historiografía y la escritura genealógica que se producen en ese mismo período. Propone que los Plomos, una fabricación morisca, se insertan en esa producción escrita, que tiene un cariz polémico al que intenta dar re…
Un réconfort pour ceux qui sont dans l'attente
On examine ici une série de thèmes sur lesquels s'appuient les croyances millénaristes communes aux deux rives de la Méditerranée durant les XVe et XVIe siècles, tels ceux du Roi Caché, des Dix Tribus Perdues ou des Prophéties de saint Isidore qui, dans un climat de confrontation et d'exclusion, furent utilisées aux mêmes fins par différentes communautés religieuses. Une bonne part de ces croyances ainsi que le climat social dont elles se nourris…
Diego de Urrea y algún traductor más
En este artículo tratamos de reconstruir la vida de Diego de Urrea, uno de los traductores e intérpretes de árabe más importantes de finales del s. XVI y principios del XVII en España. Sus actividades como catedrático en Alcalá de Henares, traductor de los Plomos del Sacromonte, catalogador de los manuscritos árabes de El Escorial, negociador, intermediario y espía en asuntos marroquíes, hacen de él una figura paradigmática de lo que significó en…
The New Cambridge History of Islam
Volume 2 of The New Cambridge History of Islam is devoted to the history of the Western Islamic lands from the political fragmentation of the eleventh century to the beginnings of European colonialism towards the end of the eighteenth century. The volume embraces a vast area from al-Andalus and North Africa to Arabia and the lands of the Ottomans. In the first four sections, scholars – all leaders in their particular fields - chart the rise and f…
Religious Dissent and Minorities
In 1502, having expelled the Jews from Spain in 1492—the same year in which the conquest of the Islamic kingdom of Granada had been completed— Ferdinand and Isabel issued a decree ordering all Muslims living in the kingdom of Castile to convert to Christianity. This new edict reproduced almost to the letter the law that had offered Spanish Jews a choice between expulsion and conversion, but it differed in that the conditions it set for leaving th…
Les Bildiyyin de Fes, un groupe de neo-musulmans d'origine juive
Etude, de la fin de l'ere marinide au debut de l'ere alawite, d'un groupe important a Fes : des musulmans d'origine juive appeles bildiyyun , convertis pour la plupart depuis la moitie du XV siecle. Cette communaute, meprisee des juifs, a donne des personnages eminents par leur science et leur piete. Sources, antecedents, conflit (debut XVII s.), cloisonnement des differentes ethnies, etc
The revolution of Fās in 869/1465 and the death of Sultan 'Abd al-ḥaqq al-Marīnī
If our present knowledge of the history of the Muslim Maghrib is in general unsatisfactory, few periods remain as obscure as the fifteenth century.The extant sources are very scarce. Contemporary Maghribī historical writings are practically non-existent and, with few exceptions, this is still an epoch for which Christian chronicles are not yet really relevant. Only fragmentary and partial information can be extracted from the contemporary Spanish…
Un réconfort pour ceux qui sont dans l'attente
On examine ici une série de thèmes sur lesquels s'appuient les croyances millénaristes communes aux deux rives de la Méditerranée durant les XVe et XVIe siècles, tels ceux du Roi Caché, des Dix Tribus Perdues ou des Prophéties de saint Isidore qui, dans un climat de confrontation et d'exclusion, furent utilisées aux mêmes fins par différentes communautés religieuses. Une bonne part de ces croyances ainsi que le climat social dont elles se nourris…
Historiens de L'Espagne, Historiens du Maghreb au 19eSiècle
Historienne spécialisée du Maghreb et de l'lslam ibérique aux 15eet 16esiècles, j ' a i souvent été surprise par le poids des stéréotypes dans ces deux types d'historiographie. Je parlerai plus particulièrement des travaux réalisés au cours du 19esiècle par les historiens de l'Europe du Nord et américains sur l'Espagne, et d'une manière générale par les historiens occidentaux (done aussi espagnols) sur le Maroc. Le classement en nations ' barbare…
Idrissisme et villes idrissides
La conjonction du sufisme et du sharîfisme au Maroc
Garcia-Arenal Mercedes. La conjonction du sufisme et du sharîfisme au Maroc : le Mahdî comme sauveur. In: Revue du monde musulman et de la Méditerranée, n°55-56, 1990. Villes au Levant. pp. 233-256
Sainteté et pouvoir dynastique au Maroc
Plusieurs ouvrages récents mettent l'accent sur l'importance du XVIe siècle dans l'histoire du Maghreb ainsi que sur l'incertitude entourant certains de ses aspects. Le XVIe siècle marocain est, tout particulièrement, l'objet d'une attention croissante, et par conséquent la bibliographie le concernant ne cesse de s'amplifier. Cependant des points très obscurs demeurent, parmi lesquels la question de l'arrivée au pouvoir des shurafā' (chorfa) sa'd…
Divided by blood
This article argues that the mass religious conversions that took place in early-modern Iberia from the end of the fourteenth century had enormous consequences, one of which was the increasing racialisation of religion. Jewish and Muslim minorities were forced to receive baptism, and although in principle the Church made no distinction among people who had been baptised, in practice the presence of large numbers of recent converts to Catholicism …
Polemical Comparisons in the Apology against the Christian Religion by Muhamad Alguazir (c. 1610)
This essay analyses the comparisons made in the Apology against the articles of the Christian Religion by Muhamad Alguazir (c. 1610). Alguazir, a Morisco from Pastrana (Spain), was one of the Moriscos living at the court of sultan Mawlay Zaydan (1608–1627). The polemical treatise he wrote was sent to Maurice of Orange shortly after the conclusion of a treaty of friendship between Zaydan and the Dutch (in 1610) and translated into Latin. The polem…
Mixed marriage, conversion, and the family
Scholars of interfaith tolerance and conflict in the pre-modern Mediterranean have largely overlooked the history of mixed marriage, that is, the binding union between men and women from different religious communities. Concentrating on pre-modern Iberia but looking as well at wider Mediterranean contexts, the collection of essays gathered here examines mixed marriage in relation to religious conversion and the family
Interreligious Encounters in Polemics between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and Beyond
Introduction
Ever since Clifford Geertz urged the "blurring of genres" in the social sciences, many scholars have considered the crossing of disciplinary boundaries a healthy alternative to rigidly maintaining them. But what precisely does the metaphor of "blurring" imply? By unpacking the varieties of visual experiences that are normally grouped under this rubric, this essay seeks to provide some precision to our understanding of the implications of fuzzines…
Mahdi, Murabit, Sharif
La heterodoxia en al-Andalus durante el Periodo Omeya
The revolution of Fās in 869/1465 and the death of Sultan 'Abd al-ḥaqq al-Marīnī
If our present knowledge of the history of the Muslim Maghrib is in general unsatisfactory, few periods remain as obscure as the fifteenth century.The extant sources are very scarce. Contemporary Maghribī historical writings are practically non-existent and, with few exceptions, this is still an epoch for which Christian chronicles are not yet really relevant. Only fragmentary and partial information can be extracted from the contemporary Spanish…
Les Bildiyyin de Fes, un groupe de neo-musulmans d'origine juive
Etude, de la fin de l'ere marinide au debut de l'ere alawite, d'un groupe important a Fes : des musulmans d'origine juive appeles bildiyyun , convertis pour la plupart depuis la moitie du XV siecle. Cette communaute, meprisee des juifs, a donne des personnages eminents par leur science et leur piete. Sources, antecedents, conflit (debut XVII s.), cloisonnement des differentes ethnies, etc
La conjonction du sufisme et du sharîfisme au Maroc
Garcia-Arenal Mercedes. La conjonction du sufisme et du sharîfisme au Maroc : le Mahdî comme sauveur. In: Revue du monde musulman et de la Méditerranée, n°55-56, 1990. Villes au Levant. pp. 233-256
Mahdi, Murabit, Sharif
La heterodoxia en al-Andalus durante el Periodo Omeya
Sainteté et pouvoir dynastique au Maroc
Plusieurs ouvrages récents mettent l'accent sur l'importance du XVIe siècle dans l'histoire du Maghreb ainsi que sur l'incertitude entourant certains de ses aspects. Le XVIe siècle marocain est, tout particulièrement, l'objet d'une attention croissante, et par conséquent la bibliographie le concernant ne cesse de s'amplifier. Cependant des points très obscurs demeurent, parmi lesquels la question de l'arrivée au pouvoir des shurafā' (chorfa) sa'd…
Estudios onomasticos-bibliograficos de al-Andalus, I
Rapports entre les groupes dans la péninsule Ibérique. La conversion de juifs à l'islam (XIIe-XIIIe siècles)
Garcia-Arenal Mercedes. Rapports entre les groupes dans la péninsule Ibérique. La conversion de juifs à l'islam (XIIe-XIIIe siècles). In: Revue du monde musulman et de la Méditerranée, n°63-64, 1992. Minorités religieuses dans l'Espagne médiévale. pp. 91-101
Idrissisme et villes idrissides
Pouvoir sacré et mahdisme
Este artículo examina la propaganda establecida por Aḥmad al-Manṣūr al-Ḏahabī tanto en su correspondencia, como a través del ceremonial de la corte y de los cronistas, apologistas oficiales del sultán, propaganda que sacraliza extraordinariamente su figura y que roza en todo momento la pretensión mahdista, unida a la pretensión califal. Esta propaganda se realiza en el contexto de rivalidad con los Otomanos y en torno a la conquista del Sudán, co…
Camila Adang, Islam frente a Judaísmo. La polémica de Ibn Ḥazm de Córdoba, Serie Autores Judíos de al-Andalus (Madrid
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Les conversions d'Européens à l'islam dans l'histoire
The author discusses the conversion to Islam of Europeans living in or moving to Islamic countries between the 16th and the first half of the 20th century. Taking a historical viewpoint, she highlights continuities and differences which could be of use in the analysis of the present-day situation. She distinguishes between the conversion of whole communities and that of individuals, and finds that identity and culture are more common motives for …
Historiens de L'Espagne, Historiens du Maghreb au 19eSiècle
Historienne spécialisée du Maghreb et de l'lslam ibérique aux 15eet 16esiècles, j ' a i souvent été surprise par le poids des stéréotypes dans ces deux types d'historiographie. Je parlerai plus particulièrement des travaux réalisés au cours du 19esiècle par les historiens de l'Europe du Nord et américains sur l'Espagne, et d'une manière générale par les historiens occidentaux (done aussi espagnols) sur le Maroc. Le classement en nations ' barbare…
The New Cambridge History of Islam
Volume 2 of The New Cambridge History of Islam is devoted to the history of the Western Islamic lands from the political fragmentation of the eleventh century to the beginnings of European colonialism towards the end of the eighteenth century. The volume embraces a vast area from al-Andalus and North Africa to Arabia and the lands of the Ottomans. In the first four sections, scholars – all leaders in their particular fields - chart the rise and f…
Imam et Mahdi
Ibn Abî Mahallî (m. 1613) est le dernier mahdi maghrébin à avoir pris le pouvoir. Je fais usage dans cet article, de trois types de sources : les œuvres d'Ibn Abî Mahallî lui-même, les sources arabes contemporaines et postérieures, soutenant toujours le pouvoir dynastique régnant et, troisièmement, les documents d'archive européens écrits par des observateurs et des voyageurs contemporains. Cette variété de sources permet de tracer le spectre qui…
Diego de Urrea y algún traductor más
En este artículo tratamos de reconstruir la vida de Diego de Urrea, uno de los traductores e intérpretes de árabe más importantes de finales del s. XVI y principios del XVII en España. Sus actividades como catedrático en Alcalá de Henares, traductor de los Plomos del Sacromonte, catalogador de los manuscritos árabes de El Escorial, negociador, intermediario y espía en asuntos marroquíes, hacen de él una figura paradigmática de lo que significó en…
El entorno de los plomos
Este artículo intenta aportar nuevas ideas acerca de la autoría de los Plomos del Sacromonte y de sus objetivos poniéndolos, por un lado, en el contexto político de los años en los que fueron realizados y por otro en conexión con la historiografía y la escritura genealógica que se producen en ese mismo período. Propone que los Plomos, una fabricación morisca, se insertan en esa producción escrita, que tiene un cariz polémico al que intenta dar re…
Un réconfort pour ceux qui sont dans l'attente
On examine ici une série de thèmes sur lesquels s'appuient les croyances millénaristes communes aux deux rives de la Méditerranée durant les XVe et XVIe siècles, tels ceux du Roi Caché, des Dix Tribus Perdues ou des Prophéties de saint Isidore qui, dans un climat de confrontation et d'exclusion, furent utilisées aux mêmes fins par différentes communautés religieuses. Une bonne part de ces croyances ainsi que le climat social dont elles se nourris…
The Ornament of the World
Messianism and Puritanical Reform
This is a book about revolutionary movements of a messianic and millenarian character, led by a "mahdi", in Islamic terms, a charismatic messianic leader. It also addresses the question of mediation between God and men and the political repercussions of this question in the history of the pre-Modern Muslim West. Mahdism is considered in relation to sufi ideas, terminology and symbols which shape notions of authority and of legitimate power when c…
Ahmad al-Mansur
The main protagonists at the battle of Alcazar 2 ABD AL-MALIK AND AHMAD BEFORE THE BATTLE OF ALCAZAR Algiers Abd al-Malik's propaganda Muley Ahmad al-Mansur 3 SIXTEENTH-CENTURY MOROCCO: ITS POPULATION, CITIES, RELIGIOUS ELITES AND ARMY The population of Morocco:Arabs and Berbers The cities The 'ulama The Sufi brotherhoods Qadiriyya and Shadhiliyya Sharifism The army 4 RENEGADES, MORISCOS AND JEWS Renegades Andalusians or Moriscos Jews 5 DIPLOMACY…
The Religious Identity of the Arabic Language and the Affair of the Lead Books of the Sacromonte of Granada
This article deals, in the first place, with the religious identity of the Arabic language as defined by the ongoing debate, in 16th-17th century Spain, about its identification with Islam. Many new Christians of Muslim origin (Moriscos) tried to break this identification in an effort to salvage part of their culture, and specially the language, by separating it from Islam. I will argue that the Morisco forgery known as the Lead Books of the Sacr…
Religious Dissent and Minorities
In 1502, having expelled the Jews from Spain in 1492—the same year in which the conquest of the Islamic kingdom of Granada had been completed— Ferdinand and Isabel issued a decree ordering all Muslims living in the kingdom of Castile to convert to Christianity. This new edict reproduced almost to the letter the law that had offered Spanish Jews a choice between expulsion and conversion, but it differed in that the conditions it set for leaving th…
Los libros de los moriscos y los eruditos orientales
Pretendemos, en este trabajo, mostrar cómo la erudición orientalista de árabes cristianos venidos a España desde Oriente (a través de Italia) se aproximó a la literatura de los moriscos, cómo la entendió y para qué la utilizó. Mostramos que estos eruditos, de entre los que elegimos los casos de Marcos Dobelio y Miguel Casiri, no pudieron realizar su trabajo orientalista, que se basa en una fuerte vinculación con los manuscritos árabes de la Bibli…
A Catholic Muslim Prophet
This contribution to a symposium "on the consequence of blur" deals with the case of Agustín de Ribera and his followers in sixteenth-century Castile. Inquisition trial records report the appearance, around 1535 among the Moriscos (Catholic converts of Muslim origin) in Toledo, of a boy who had ecstasies and visions in which he traveled to the Hereafter and received revelations. Though considered by his followers and also by the Inquisition a pro…
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