Islamic Literature in Spanish and Aljamiado: Yca of Segovia (fl.1450), his Antecedents and Successors
This important work is an historical study of the Islamic writings in Spanish and Aljamiado (Spanish in Arabic script) of the Muslim minorities in medieval Christian Spain, the Mudejars and Moriscos.\ On the basis of both Christian sources, such as archival documents and the writings of John of Segovia, and Islamic sources in Spanish and Arabic, this book focuses on the life and writings of Yça Gidelli (ca 1450), religious authority of the Mudejar community of Segovia (Castile). Of crucial...
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This work is a study of Islam in medieval Christian Spain, focussing on the Mudejar religious authority Yça Gidelli (fl. 1450) and his Islamic writings in Spanish. On the basis of published and unpublished sources in Spanish and Arabic, it sheds new light on the religious history of the Muslim minorities.
PrefaceIntroduction1Ch. IPrevious Studies of the History of Islamic Spanish Literature and the Role of Yca of Segovia16Ch. IIThe Earliest Traces of Islamic Spanish Literature in Al-Andalus29Ch. IIIThe Use of Romance as a Medium of Written Expression Among the Mudejars Until 145647Ch. IVYca of Segovia: Life and Works69Ch. VYca's Influence on Islamic Spanish Literature151Ch. VIYca of Segovia and the History of Islamic Spanish Literature197Summary214Appendix 1: List of Islamic Spanish texts from Spain of which either the date or the author is known223Appendix 2. Letter of Yca to Juan de Segovia d.d. 24 April 1454 and English translation230Appendix 3. Breviario Sumni, prologue236Appendix 4. Breviario Sumni, chapter 58, on the signs of the end of the present age"240Appendix 5. Madrid B.N. 5252: Tratado i deklaracion i gia para segir i mantener el-addin del-aliclam, f. 2v-34v243Abbreviations266Bibliography268General Index293
