Qur'anic Manuscripts from Late Muslim Spain
The Collection of Almonacid de la Sierra
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22318489 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nuria de Castilla (0000-0001-6328-8214, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, corresponding author), Nuria Martínez-de-Castilla-Muñoz (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 89-138 |
| Publication date | 2014-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Qur'anic Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1465-3591 • E-ISSN: 1755-1730 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/jqs.2014.0149 |
| OpenAlex | W2005095529 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 4 |
In spite of a widespread ignorance of Arabic among the Moriscos (the last Muslims of the Iberian Peninsula, expelled in 1018–23/1609–14), and the prohibition of the possession of books in Arabic script, the Moriscos continued transcribing and transmitting the Qur'an. These copies exhibit various peculiarities related either to their physical presentation, or to their cultural significance. The materials which are part of the Almonacid de la Sierra collection (today in the Tomás Navarro Tomás library (CCHS-CSIC), Madrid) – that means, 37 fragmentary copies of the Qur'an – provide us with an idea of the kind of Qur'anic texts the Moriscos were using by the end of the tenth/sixteenth century in spite of the religious and linguistic restraints which were imposed on them. There are complete maṣāhif, usually divided into four volumes. In addition, we find Qur'anic extracts, the contents of which are almost always the same; this probably implies some ritual use. Finally, there are family prayer books containing some suras and verses which can be recited according to the moment. The diversity of these manuscripts gives us an idea of the knowledge of the Qur'an among the Moriscos and the strength of Islam in tenth/sixteenth-century Aragon
Ancient history · Arabic · Archaeology · Art · Humanities · Ignorance · Islam · Kingdom · Linguistics · Political science · Prayer · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies
Morisco Catechisms
Los copistas y sus textos. Las traducciones moriscas del Corán en la Biblioteca Tomás Navarro Tomás (CSIC, Madrid)
An Aljamiado Translation of the ‘Morisco Qur'an’ and its Arabic Text ( c. 1609)
Un concurrent du Coran en Occident musulman du X e /XVI e à l'aube du XII e /XVIII e siècle
La production en aljamiado comme frontière discursive (XVe-XVIIe siècles)
El estilo caligráfico cúfico en los títulos de las azoras de los manuscritos coránicos mudéjares y moriscos
Manuscritos del Corán en la Real Biblioteca de El Escorial
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,58 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |