Alexandre Coello is Senior Professor in the Department of Humanities at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. His main lines of research are dedicated to ecclesiastical history, particularly focused on colonial Peru and the Philippines. He is (co)editor of the Journal Illes i Imperis/Islands and Empires and his recent publications include Jesuits at the Margins (2016).Linda G. Jones is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. She has published widely on the subject of comparitive religious studies, particularly preaching, and is also the Vice-President of the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society.

• 1 Introduction. Alexandre Coello and Linda G. Jones; Part I: Holiness, Saints, and Sanctity in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; 2 Holiness, Saints, and Sanctity in Judaism-Alexandra Cuffel; 3 Holiness, Saints, and Sanctity in Christianitnity- Linda G. Jones; 4 Holiness, Saints, and Sanctity in Islam- Linda G. Jones; Part II: Case Studies; 5 Missionary martyrdoms and relics in the Mariana Islands: the cases of Jesuit Fathers Luis de Medina and Father Manuel de Solórzano, SJ -Alexandre Coello de la Rosa; 6 Models of Sanctity in the Medieval Islamic West: The Cases of Abū Ya‘zā and al-Yuḥānisī”-Rachid El Hour; 7 A Mudejar Community of Saints: Reconfiguring Sanctity among the Mudejars of Aragon (13th-14h c.)-Linda G. Jones; 8 Masculinity, Sexuality, and Sanctity in the Ottoman Hagiographical Narratives: The Case of the Velāyet-nāme-i Ḥācī Bektaş-ı Velī-Ozgen Felek ; 9 Jewish Saints and Sanctuaries in Colonial Morocco- Maite Ojeda Mata ;10 Remembering a Moroccan Female Jewish Saint: Sol Hachuel through Her Nephew’s Letters to the Alliance Israélite Universelle (1880-1897)-Araceli González Vázquez; 11 Sufi Sainthood, Modernity, and Reformism: Sheikh Bin ‘Alīwa and the Colonial Maghreb”- Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste; 12 Concluding Remarks- Alexandre Coello and Linda G. Jones; 13 Contributors.

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