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Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur (1578-1603) was one of the most important rulers in the history of Morocco, which to this day bears the mark of his twenty-five year rule in the sixteenth century. Though famed for his cunning diplomacy in the power struggle over the Mediterranean, and his allegiance with Britain against Spain in the conquest for the newly discovered Americas, he was more than a political and military tactician. A descendent of the Prophet Muhammad himself, al-Mansur was a charismatic religious authority with ambitions to become Caliph and ruler of all Muslims. Spanning four continents, Dr. García-Arenal places this fascinating figure in a context of political intrigue, discovery and military conquest. With insightful analysis, a glossary and a guide to further reading, this book is the ideal introduction to a multifaceted figure who fully deserves the epithet "Maker of the Muslim World".

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El presente volumen trata de ser una aportación científica al campo de la cultura eclesiástica y de reflexión historiográfica sobre el sentido que tuvo el pasado para los hombres del pasado. Lugar de encuentro donde concurren especialistas de historia de la Iglesia, de la espiritualidad, de las instituciones eclesiásticas, de las órdenes sagradas, junto a investigadores que se han ocupado del estudio de la vida religiosa, las heterodoxias, la liturgia, la fiesta y la religiosidad.

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Cualquier curioso de la historia cree saber qué significa la expresión Plomos del Sacromonte: algo así como el conjunto de láminas de ese metal con extraños dibujos e inscripciones latinas y árabes encontradas en la colina de Valparaíso, luego Sacromonte, extramuros de la ciudad de Granada, en el período 1595-1599; incluyéndose en el conjunto, por su íntima y evidente imbricación, los restos humanos que las acompañaban, y, también, el hallazgo habido en laTorre Turpiana, en el centro del núcleo urbano de Granada, en 1588, siempre asociado como prólogo. Es la opción restrictiva, elemental y primaria. Domina en ella la dimensión fabulosa del hallazgo o invención ?como entonces se decía?, el relato, la novela, de un fraude perpetrado por unos moriscos irredentos movidos por no se sabe qué oscuros designios, del que, por incomprensible paradoja, emergen de entre las brumas del tiempo un San Cecilio, patrón inefable de Granada, y una abadía del Sacromonte, presencia inmarcesible de aura mis

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This collection takes a new approach to understanding religious plurality in the Iberian Peninsula and its Mediterranean and northern European contexts. Focusing on polemics—works that attack or refute the beliefs of religious Others—this volume aims to challenge the problematic characterization of Iberian Jews, Muslims, and Christians as homogeneous groups.From the high Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century, Christian efforts to convert groups of Jews and Muslims, Muslim efforts to convert Christians and Jews, and the defensive efforts of these communities to keep their members within the faiths led to the production of numerous polemics. This volume brings together a wide variety of case studies that expose how the current historiographical focus on the three religious communities as allegedly homogeneous groups obscures the diversity within the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim communities as well as the growing ranks of skeptics and outright unbelievers. Featuring contributions from a range of academic disciplines, this paradigm-shifting book sheds new light on the cultural and intellectual dynamics of the conflicts that marked relations among these religious communities in the Iberian Peninsula and beyond.In addition to the editors, the contributors are Antoni Biosca i Bas, Thomas E. Burman, Mònica Colominas Aparicio, John Dagenais, Óscar de la Cruz, Borja Franco Llopis, Linda G. Jones, Daniel J. Lasker, Davide Scotto, Teresa Soto, Ryan Szpiech, Pieter Sjoerd van Koningsveld, and Carsten Wilke.

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This interdisciplinary collection explores how the early modern pursuit of knowledge in very different spheres – from Inquisitional investigations to biblical polemics to popular healing – was conditioned by a shared desire for certainty, and how epistemological crises produced by the religious upheavals of early modern Europe were also linked to the development of new scientific methods. Questions of representation became newly fraught as the production of knowledge increasingly challenged established orthodoxies. The volume focuses on the social and institutional dimensions of inquiry in light of political and cultural challenges, while also foregrounding the Hispanic world, which has often been left out of histories of scepticism and modernity. Featuring essays by historians and literary scholars from Europe and the United States, The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe reconstructs the complexity of early modern epistemological debates across the disciplines, in a variety of cultural, social, and intellectual locales.

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