Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: The Muslim Exclaves in Christian Spain; Chapter 1. On the Border of Infidelity; Chapter 2. From Dar al-Islam to Dar al-Harb: Landscapes of Mudejar Spain; Chapter 3. Transmitting Knowledge and Building Networks; Chapter 4. Write It Down!; Chapter 5. Pretending to Be Jurists; Chapter 6. The Scholar's Jihad, the Mudejar Mosque, and Preaching; Chapter 7. Captive Redemption: From Dar al-Harb to Dar al-Islam; Epilogue; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
Summary
Muslim enclaves within non-Islamic polities are commonly believed to have been beleaguered communities undergoing relentless cultural and religious decline. Cut off from the Islamic world, these Muslim groups, it is assumed, passively yielded to political, social, and economic forces of assimilation and acculturation before finally accepting Christian dogma. Kathryn A. Miller radically reconceptualizes what she calls the exclave experience of medieval Muslim minorities. By focusing on the legal scholars (faqihs) of fifteenth-century Aragonese Muslim communities and translating little-known an
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-259) and index
