Date/Time
Date(s) - 7 Feb 2012
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location
Casa Hispanica, 201
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“On the Dangers of Diasporic Life: The Evolution of Muslim Attitudes to the Mudéjar Leadership” by Alan Verskin (Columbia)
It is well-known that by the 15th century, North African jurists had issued strongly-worded fatwas denouncing the Mudéjar religious leaders
and demanding their migration to Islamic lands. Upon reviewing the history of legal thought about this issue, especially when coupled with the documentary evidence about the relationship between Mudéjar communities and their Christian rulers, a somewhat different picture emerges. This paper attempts to read these fatwas as pragmatic attempts to deal with changing geopolitical circumstances.
“Ethics Before the Law: The Aljamiado _Compendium_ of al-Ṭulayṭulī” by Vincent Barletta (Stanford)
This talk focuses on Aljamiado translations of a popular Andalusi compendium of Islamic jurisprudence. This legal compendium (mukhtaṣar)
was redacted by a jurist named Abū al-Ḥassan ‘Ali ibn ‘Isa al-Ṭulayṭulī in the early tenth century, and it deals primarily with practical devotional obligations (‘ibādāt) as understood by the Maliki school of jurisprudence. This talk examines al-Ṭulayṭulī’s compendium as a mediating means for the formation of emergent ethical frameworks within the Crypto-Muslim communities of sixteenth-century Western Aragon.
Reception to follow.
Organized by:
MIME: Medieval Iberia, Modern Empire
Department of Latin American and Iberian Studies
Institute for Comparative Literature and Society