A Catholic Muslim Prophet

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3850185
AutoresMercedes García-Arenal, Mercedes García‐arenal (0000-0001-9592-3585, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Volume18
Fascículo2
Páginas267-291
Data de publicação2012-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCommon Knowledge (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0961-754X • E-ISSN: 1538-4578
EditoraDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/0961754x-1544950
OpenAlexW2068802627
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas7

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 prophet of Muhammad, Agustin and his visions appear to have arisen in a context held in common with the Christian majority of Castile. This case thus reveals the existence of a hybrid form of Catholic Muslim religiosity, but only to scholars who do what is required to de differentiate - that is, to blur - the categories of identity and orthodoxy that were established by the Inquisition. Scholars have for too long allowed the Inquisition to overclarify for posterity the distinctions that existed between ethno religious groups and to define for us the nature of religious dissidence in early modern Spain

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