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This title offers a study of the Morisco minority in early modern Granada through the affair of the forged Arabic gospels found in the city at the end of the 16th century. It connects the findings of this gospel with the origins of Orientalism.
Taking as its main subject a series of notorious forgeries by Muslim converts in sixteenth-century Granada (including an apocryphal gospel in Arabic), this book studies the emotional, cultural and religious world view of the Morisco minority and the complexity of its identity, c…
The Spanish Orient offers a study of the Morisco minority in Early Modern Granada through the affair of the forged Arabic gospels found in the city at the end of 16th century. It connects the findings of this gospel with the origins of Orientalism.
This edited volume presents a critique of citizenship as exclusively and even originally a European or 'Western' institution. It explores the ways in which we may begin to think differently about citizenship as political subjectivity.
"The word 'citizen' evokes a particular legacy that is inexorably associated with 'European' values that define especially Euro-American states, such as secularism, democracy, law, and rights. However, since 1945, these very values have been increasingly placed under question fr…
Tracing the transnational influences of what has been known as a uniquely American genre, "the Western," Susan Kollin analyzes key moments in the history of multicultural encounters between the Middle East and the American West. In particular, the book examines how experiences o…
