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The Orient in Spain Converted Muslims, the Forged Lead Books of Granada, and the Rise of Orientalismby Mercedes García-Arenal and Fernando Rodríguez Mediano.Translated from the Spanish by Consuelo López-MorillasTaking 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.Biographical noteMercedes García-Arenal is Research Professor at the National Council for Scientific Research, Madrid. She has published about cultural and religious aspects of the Muslim West and of ethnic-religious minorities in Spain and the Magreb. Among her books, Messianism and Puritanical Reform: Mahdis of the Muslim West (Leiden, Brill,2003) with Gerard Wiegers, A man of three Worlds: Samuel Pallache, a Moroccan jew between Catholic and Protestant Europe, (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins, 2006).Fernando Rodríguez Mediano is Scientific Researcher at the National Council for Scientific Research, Madrid. His has published about the history of Morocco and its relationship with Spain (15th-20th centuries). Among his publications: Fernando Rodríguez Mediano and Helena de Felipe (eds.),El Protectorado español en Marruecos. Gestión colonial e identidades, Madrid, CSIC, 2002; Familias de Fez (ss. XV-XVII), Madrid, CSIC, 1995.Table of contentsABBREVIATIONSINTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1. THE SACROMONTE LEAD BOOKS: THE EVENTSTHE TURPIANA TOWER PARCHMENTARCHBISHOP DON PEDRO DE CASTROTHE LEAD BOOKSTHE RECEPTION OF THE FINDSTHE EVALUATION PROCESSPOLEMICS AND RESISTANCETHE LEAD BOOKS LEAVE GRANADATHE LEAD BOOKS IN ROMETHE DEFENSORIOSCHAPTER 2. GRANADA CONQUERED: CASTILIANIZATION AND CONVERSIONGRANADA CONQUEREDLANGUAGE AND EVANGELIZATIONTHE ERADICATION OF ARABICTHE DEFENSE OF ARABIC AND ITS PERSISTENCE IN GRANADAREFORMERS AND ALUMBRADOSGRANADA AND ITS MORISCOS AROUND 1580CHAPTER 3. THE NOBLE FAMILIESOLD CHRISTIANS OF MOORISH ORIGINCONVERSIONINTEGRATIONMULEY FEZ AND GRANADA VENEGASTHE HAPPY FORMER DAYS OF OUR GLORYTHE ORIGEN DE LA CASA DE GRANADATHE GRANADA VENEGAS LITERARY TERTULIACHAPTER 4. ALONSO DEL CASTILLO : TRANSLATOR, AUTHOR?ALONSO DEL CASTILLO AND OTHER TRANSLATORS OF THE PARCHMENTTHE CHAPIZ FAMILYPHYSICIANTRANSLATORTHE WARTHE PROPHECIES CHAPTER 5. ALONSO DEL CASTILLO’S FRIENDS: PRIESTS, SOLDIERS, INTERPRETERSPRIESTSDIEGO MARÍNFRANCISCO LÓPEZ TAMARIDDIEGO MARÍN IN MOROCCODIEGO MARÍN’S DIPLOMATIC CAREERCHAPTER 6. DIEGO BEJARANO AL-ḥAJARĪ AND THE MORISCO UNDERSTANDING OF THE LEAD BOOKSDIEGO BEJARANO OR AḥMAD B. QĀSIM AL-ḥAJARĪAL-ḥAJARĪ AND THE PARCHMENT AND LEAD BOOKSHOW THE MORISCOS READ THE LEAD BOOKSCHAPTER 7. MIGUEL DE LUNA: HISTORIAN, NOVELIST, PHYSICIANTHE HISTORIA VERDADERA DEL REY DON RODRIGOPHYSICIAN: THE TRATADO DE LOS BAÑOS (TREATISE ON BATHS)CHAPTER 8. MIGUEL DE LUNA: TRANSLATOR, APOLOGIST, AUTHORTHE PARCHMENTMIGUEL DE LUNA, PEDRO GUERRA DE LORCA, AND BENITO ARIAS MONTANOTHE LEAD BOOKS TRANSLATEDTHE SOLOMONIC LETTERSFRIENDSHIP WITH JOAN DE FARÍAMIGUEL DE LUNA AND THE MORISCOS OF TOLEDO: “THERE IS NO BETTER MOOR IN SPAIN”CHAPTER 9. JERÓNIMO ROMÁN DE LA HIGUERA: THE FALSE CHRONICLES AND THE SACROMONTE LEAD BOOKSANNIUS OF VITERBO AND SPAINJERÓNIMO ROMÁN DE LA HIGUERA AND THE FALSE CHRONICLESSAINT JAMESTOLEDO AND THE CULT OF SAN TIRSOROMÁN DE LA HIGUERA AND ALONSO DEL CASTILLOROMÁN DE LA HIGUERA AND PEDRO DE CASTROROMÁN DE LA HIGUERA, MIGUEL DE LUNA, AND THE TOWER OF HERCULESTHE TRUE CROSS OF CARAVACATHE INFLUENCE OF HIGUERA: JEWS AND PHOENICIANSCHAPTER 10. DIEGO DE URREADIEGO DE URREA BETWEEN ITALY AND NORTH AFRICAURREA IN SPAINDIEGO DE URREA AND THE LEAD BOOKSURREA THE HISTORIANDIPLOMATIC MISSIONSDIEGO DE URREA IN NAPLESFRANCISCO DE GURMENDI CHAPTER 11. MARCOS DOBELIOTHE SACROMONTE SEEKS ARABIC TRANSLATORSAN ARABIST IN ITALY AND SPAINMARCOS DOBELIO AND THE ARABIC MANUSCRIPTS OF EL ESCORIALMARCOS DOBELIO’S ARABIC BOOKSA PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF ABŪ L-FIDĀ’’S HISTORYA TRANSLATION OF A MEDICAL WORK AND A GRAMMARDOBELIO’S PAPERSCHAPTER 12. MARCOS DOBELIO AND THE BOOKS FROM PASTRANA: THE ISLAMIC CONTENT OF THE LEAD BOOKSWRITING AND NECROMANCYPASTRANATHE PASTRANA BOOKSGENEALOGIES, RELIGIOUS POLEMIC, AND STORIES OF THE PROPHETSAL-BAKRĪ’S KITĀB AL-ANWĀRISLAMIC TEXTS FOR A MORISCO AUDIENCEMUHAMMAD ALGUAZIR OR DIEGO ALGUACIL CHAPTER 13. IS THE ARABIC OF THE LEAD BOOKS THE LANGUAGE OF ISLAM?THE LAMINAE GRANATENSES AND THE VATICAN EXPERTSARABIC IN ROMEMOHAMMEDAN TERMSCHAPTER 14. FATHER TOMÁS DE LEÓN AND THE MARQUIS OF MONDÉJAR: A LEARNED CORRESPONDENCEGASPAR IBÁÑEZ DE SEGOVIA, MARQUIS OF AGRÓPOLI AND OF MONDÉJARFATHER TOMÁS DE LEÓNWORKS BY TOMÁS DE LEÓNFATHER TIRSO GONZÁLEZ DE SANTALLATOMÁS DE LEÓN AND THE SACROMONTE ABBEYTOMÁS DE LEÓN, ORIENTALISTNETWORKS OF ARABISTSMARTÍN VÁZQUEZ SIRUELAA CIRCLE OF ORIENTALISTS?CHAPTER 15. THE ARABIC LANGUAGE AND ORIENTALISM IN SPAINLEARNING ARABIC: THE PROBLEM OF TEXTSLEARNING ARABIC: THE NEW MATERIALSORIENTALIST BOOKS IN SPAIN CHAPTER 16. AL-ANDALUS IN THE HISTORY OF SPAINAL-ANDALUS: PART OF THE HISTORY OF SPAIN?DIEGO PÉREZ DE MESAARABIC SOURCES FOR WRITING THE HISTORY OF SPAIN: LUIS DEL MÁRMOLDIEGO DE GUADIXTHE RELICS OF AL-ANDALUSCONTINUITIES AND RUPTURESPROBLEMS OF INTERPRETATIONCHAPTER 17. THE ARABIC LANGUAGE AS A TOOL FOR SCHOLARSHIPIN DEFENSE OF ORIENTAL LANGUAGESARABIC SCRIPTMANUSCRIPTS AND TRANSLATIONS CHAPTER 18. THE ORIENT IN SPAINPROBLEMS OF CHRONOLOGY: THE HIJRATHE ORIENT IN SPAIN: JUDAISMTHE ORIENT IN SPAIN: EGYPTEGYPTIAN CHRONOLOGY“THE PERVERSE DOMESTIC ENEMIES OF THE CHURCH”EPILOGUESOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHYILLUSTRATIONSINDEXinfo:http://www.brill.com/orient-spain#TOC_1