Early Islam between Myth and History

Mourad, Suleiman A.

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“…97 What is striking, however, is that it was widely believed, as Suleiman Mourad has demonstrated, that "al-Ḥasan and Jesus were similar in looks and words [and] what is said by one can be easily transferred to the other". 98 So many sayings by Jesus were reattributed to al-Ḥasan that it could almost be argued that "al-Ḥasan was involved in the transmission of Jesus's teachings". 99 In fact, such reattribution can also be traced in Baḥr al-Dumūʿ.…”

Section: Baḥ R Al-dumu ̄ʿ and The Capilla De Santiagomentioning

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“…98 So many sayings by Jesus were reattributed to al-Ḥasan that it could almost be argued that "al-Ḥasan was involved in the transmission of Jesus's teachings". 99 In fact, such reattribution can also be traced in Baḥr al-Dumūʿ. 100 This similarity in physiognomy was particularly articulated in Sufi writings and in the important book al-Kāmil by the Abbasid philologist Muhammad b. Yazīd al-Mubarrad (d. 900), of which a manuscript from 512/1118 survives in El Escorial.…”

Section: Baḥ R Al-dumu ̄ʿ and The Capilla De Santiagomentioning

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Las Huelgas: Arabic inscriptions for Christian liturgy

Francis

2023

Bull. Sch. Orient. Afr. stud.

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This article analyses the little-studied thirteenth-century Arabic inscriptions of the monastery of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas in Burgos, Spain. Despite their creation during an intensifying Christian–Muslim conflict, they were part of a decorative programme that relied on shared religious ideas and iconography. Their incorporation reinforced daily, funerary and commemorative monastic liturgies. While the article explores the Islamic provenance of these inscriptions, it also reveals the overlooked Arabic New Testament as a source. The inscriptions’ provenance, however, was deliberately obscured first and foremost by the nature of their visual display. Examining the relationship of the Latin to the Arabic inscriptions illustrates an unusual symbiosis between the meaning of the inscriptions, the iconography and the monastery's ritual. This symbiosis was formulated through a highly selective editorial process on the part of the Christian patrons, and predicated on their knowledge of the finer points of Islamic doctrine and cultural practices.

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Section: Baḥ R Al-dumu ̄ʿ and The Capilla De Santiagomentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Baḥ R Al-dumu ̄ʿ and The Capilla De Santiagomentioning

confidence: 99%