The Book of Disputation: A Mudejar Religious-Philosophical Treatise against Christians and Jews

Mònica Colominas Aparicio, Ph.D. (2016) University of Groningen, is the author of The Religious Polemics of the Muslims of Late Medieval Iberia: Identity and Religious Authority in Mudejar Islam (Brill, 2018) and numerous other studies of religious minorities in pre-modern Iberia.

Acknowledgements

Note on Transliteration, Conventions and Abbreviations

List of Figures



Introduction

 1 The KM in the Production of Religious Polemics of Iberian Muslims

 2 Characteristics of Mudejar Polemics

 3 The Contents and Intellectual Milieu of the KM

 4 The Author’s Defence of Philosophy

 5 Chapter Overview



Part 1 A Mudejar Microcosmos



1 A Scholarly Defence of Religious Excellence

 1 Contested Claims to Noble Descent in Christian Iberia

 2 “Generational Discontinuation” in the KM



2 A Fourteenth-Century Mudejar Cosmology

 1 Natural Philosophy in the KM

 2 Sections and Distribution of Sources on Philosophy in the KM



3 Harmony between Revelation and Philosophy: Towards an Identification of the Author of the KM



Part 2 The Book of Disputation: A Diplomatic Text Edition



General Remarks



Language and Its Use in the Copy by ar-Raqilī



Diplomatic Text Edition



Appendix 1: Contents of The Book of Disputation

Appendix 2: Source Overview

Appendix 3: Qurʾān Verses

Appendix 4: Bible Verses

Appendix 5: Words in Aljamiado

Bibliographical References

Index of Names and Places