After Conversion

Mercedes García-Arenal is a Research professor at the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CCHS-CSIC, Madrid) and PI of the CORPI project. She is a cultural historian of the Early Modern Muslim West (Islam in the Iberian Peninsula and the Maghreb) and has published extensively on religious minorities, processes of conversion, messianism, millenarianism, and the Spanish Inquisition. Her best known book was written with Gerard A. Wiegers, A Man of Three Worlds: Samuel Pallache, a Moroccan Jew between Catholic and Protestant Europe (2003), first published in Spanish (1999) and translated into Arabic, Italian and Dutch. She is co-editor of The Expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain: A Mediterranean Diaspora (2014) and co-author of The Orient in Spain: Converted Muslims, the Forged Lead Books of Granada and the Rise of Orientalism (2013).

• List of figuresAcknowledgementsNotes on contributors0. IntroductionMercedes García-ArenalPart I: Biblical Culture, Jewish Antiquities and New Forms of Sacred History1. Nebuchadnezzar’s Jewish Legions: Sephardic Legends’ Journey from Biblical Polemic to Humanist HistoryAdam G. Beaver2. Biblical Translations and Literalness in Early Modern SpainFernando Rodríguez Mediano3. Language as Archive: Etymologies and the Remote History of SpainValeria López Fadul4. The Search for Evidence: The Relics of Martyred Saints and Their Worship in Cordoba after the Council of TrentCécile Vincent-CassyPart II: Iberian Polemics, Readings of the Qurʾān and the Rise of European Orientalism5. Textual Agnogenesis and the Polysemy of the Reader: Early Modern European Readings of Qur’ānic EmbryologyPier Mattia Tommasino6. A Witness of Their Own Nation: On the Influence of Juan AndrésRyan Szpiech7. Authority, Philology and Conversion under the Aegis of Martín GarcíaTeresa Soto González and Katarzyna K. Starczewska8. Polemical Transfers: Iberian Muslim Polemics and their Impact in Northern Europe in the Seventeenth CenturyGerard A. WiegersPart III: Conversion and Perplexity9. Assembling Alumbradismo: The Evolution of a Heretical ConstructJessica J. Fowler10. Doubt in Fifteenth-Century IberiaStefania Pastore11. Mi padre moro, yo moro: The Inheritance of Belief in Early Modern IberiaMercedes García-Arenal12. Tropes of Expertise and Converso Unbelief: Huarte de San Juan’s History of MedicineSeth Kimmel13. True Painting and the Challenge of HypocrisyFelipe PeredaBibliographyGeneral Index

Chapter One, Nebuchadnezzar’s Jewish Legions by Adam G. Beaver is the winner of the 2017 Bishko Prize for best article on medieval Iberian history published by a North American scholar. The prize is awarded by the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (ASPHS).