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Ritual, Media, and Conflict, 2011
4 Ritual as a Source of Conflict Robert Langer, Thomas Quartier, Udo Simon, Jan Snoek, and Gerard... more 4 Ritual as a Source of Conflict Robert Langer, Thomas Quartier, Udo Simon, Jan Snoek, and Gerard Wiegers Ritual connects people, but it is also a source of conflict within and between groups, especially those whose practices are made public by way of media. In each of the ...
ISBN 9789082597820, 2019
The Archive of the Sacromonte Abbey in Granada preserves a historical treasure of great value tha... more The Archive of the Sacromonte Abbey in Granada preserves a
historical treasure of great value that was the object of the
present lecture by two Dutch scholars at the Palace of the
Archbishop in Granada, on Tuesday March 19, at 19.00 hours.
The treasure we are speaking of consists of Arabic texts on a
sheet of parchment and on numerous small tablets of lead,
which were discovered in Granada, at the end of the 16th
century, in the tower of the old Friday Mosque and in caves
of the “Valparaíso” hill, which henceforth became called
“Sacromonte”. These Arabic texts are among the very last
literary productions of the Granadan Moriscos, who were of
Andalusi Muslim origin and who continued to live in Spain,
often attached to their ancient Islamic faith in secret. With
the permission of the Archbishop of Granada, the Dutch
scholars, who are specialized in the History of Religions in
general, and especially in the history of Islam, including the
religious history of Muslims living in as minorities in
Christian Spain, are preparing a study, edition and
translation of these sources, which have been the object of
heated discussions in the 17th century and which have
regained international academic interest in the present time.
Professors Van Koningsveld (Emeritus Professor of Islamic
Studies at Leiden University) and Wiegers (Professor of
Comparative Religious Studies at the University of
Amsterdam), present herewith a report of their research
project and shed new light on the religious messages of these
enigmatic texts.
Congress Paper Madrid "Polemical Encounters" CCHS-CSIS, September 29-October 1, 2014., 2014
The complete Arabic text and annotated English translation of the Granada Lead Book on the life o... more The complete Arabic text and annotated English translation of the Granada Lead Book on the life of Jesus.
Nuevas aportaciones al conocimiento y estudio del Sacro Monte. IV centenario fundacional (1610-2010)., 2011
An Islamic text with polemical, especially anti-Jewish,as well as apocalyptical overtones. Our pu... more An Islamic text with polemical, especially anti-Jewish,as well as apocalyptical overtones. Our publication presents the Arabic text, an English annotated translation, and photographs of the original disks of lead on which the text has been engraved.
Ritual, Media, and Conflict, 2011
4 Ritual as a Source of Conflict Robert Langer, Thomas Quartier, Udo Simon, Jan Snoek, and Gerard... more 4 Ritual as a Source of Conflict Robert Langer, Thomas Quartier, Udo Simon, Jan Snoek, and Gerard Wiegers Ritual connects people, but it is also a source of conflict within and between groups, especially those whose practices are made public by way of media. In each of the ...
ISBN 9789082597820, 2019
The Archive of the Sacromonte Abbey in Granada preserves a historical treasure of great value tha... more The Archive of the Sacromonte Abbey in Granada preserves a
historical treasure of great value that was the object of the
present lecture by two Dutch scholars at the Palace of the
Archbishop in Granada, on Tuesday March 19, at 19.00 hours.
The treasure we are speaking of consists of Arabic texts on a
sheet of parchment and on numerous small tablets of lead,
which were discovered in Granada, at the end of the 16th
century, in the tower of the old Friday Mosque and in caves
of the “Valparaíso” hill, which henceforth became called
“Sacromonte”. These Arabic texts are among the very last
literary productions of the Granadan Moriscos, who were of
Andalusi Muslim origin and who continued to live in Spain,
often attached to their ancient Islamic faith in secret. With
the permission of the Archbishop of Granada, the Dutch
scholars, who are specialized in the History of Religions in
general, and especially in the history of Islam, including the
religious history of Muslims living in as minorities in
Christian Spain, are preparing a study, edition and
translation of these sources, which have been the object of
heated discussions in the 17th century and which have
regained international academic interest in the present time.
Professors Van Koningsveld (Emeritus Professor of Islamic
Studies at Leiden University) and Wiegers (Professor of
Comparative Religious Studies at the University of
Amsterdam), present herewith a report of their research
project and shed new light on the religious messages of these
enigmatic texts.
Congress Paper Madrid "Polemical Encounters" CCHS-CSIS, September 29-October 1, 2014., 2014
The complete Arabic text and annotated English translation of the Granada Lead Book on the life o... more The complete Arabic text and annotated English translation of the Granada Lead Book on the life of Jesus.
Nuevas aportaciones al conocimiento y estudio del Sacro Monte. IV centenario fundacional (1610-2010)., 2011
An Islamic text with polemical, especially anti-Jewish,as well as apocalyptical overtones. Our pu... more An Islamic text with polemical, especially anti-Jewish,as well as apocalyptical overtones. Our publication presents the Arabic text, an English annotated translation, and photographs of the original disks of lead on which the text has been engraved.
Critical edition and Translation of a paradigmatic Lead Book.
Al-Qantara, Jan 1, 2003
The present contribution deals with the famous parchment found in 1588 in the old minaret of the ... more The present contribution deals with the famous parchment found in 1588 in the old minaret of the former Friday Mosque of Granada, with texts in Arabic, Spanish, and Latin. Together with the Lead Books, discovered in various caves in the outskirts of Granada in the years 1595-1600, the parchment stood at the beginning of an important national cult. After being transferred to the Vatican at the beginning of the seventeenth century and following their anathematization in 1682 the parchment and the Lead Books were kept in Rome until the year 2000 when they were returned to the Archbishopry of Granada. The article presents an analysis of the layout and script of the parchment (2) followed by a survey of translations and transcripts by early (Christian and Muslim) eyewitnesses (3.1). The data of these early eyewitnesses are critically compared with the main elements of the parchment (3.2) Then follows a discussion of the palaeographic comments made by a few (Christian and Muslim) eyewitnesses (4). In the final conclusions, the authors argue that the document under discussion is indeed the original parchment as found in 1588 notwithstanding the incomprehensibility of its Arabic texts and the many inconsistencies and corruptions of its Spanish and Latin texts (5.1). According to the authors, there is no evidence for the interpretation of the parchment as a proto-Islamic document, as we are dealing here with a Roman Catholic message heralding the destruction of Islam. At the same time, however, the document also contained a symbolic message, viz. in stipulating that the first-century Granadan Christians, including the well-known figure of Cecilius, wrote Arabic and Spanish, just as many Moriscos did. In other words: even though Islam had to be extirpated, Arabic as a language could harmoniously accompany a genuine Christian life.
Rereading Fokke Sierksma's seminal study on Messianism and the afterword by Sierksma's student, d... more Rereading Fokke Sierksma's seminal study on Messianism and the afterword by Sierksma's student, dr Gerit Willem Drost, a good colleague and friend, who passed away in 2011.
This article shows that the role of the Study of Religions (i. e. Religions-wissenschaft, Science... more This article shows that the role of the Study of Religions (i. e. Religions-wissenschaft, Sciences des Religions, the Science of Religions) in secondary education is increasingly the subject ofstudyby individual scholars ofreligions as well as by national and international associations for the Study of Religions. I argue that this interest is a corollary of social and cultural transformation processes such as pluralisation, secularisa-tion, and globalisation on the one hand, and of developments within the field of theology and the Study of Religions, in particular the coming into being of the latter as a separate discipline on a global scale, on the other. At the same time, next to scholars of religions and against the background of the same processes, educationalists have sought to broaden traditional religious education, in the form of the 'learning religion model, and give the Study of Religions a place in the secondary school curriculum, This article offers a reflection about the results of both pedagogica-l efforts and efforts ofscholars ofreligions to concep-tualise the role of the Study of Religions in secondary education in the context of Dutch society and beyond.
Hamsa: Journal of Judaic and Islamic Studies 6 (2019-April 2020), 2019
Medieval Encounters 24, nos. 1-3 (2018): 1–13, 2018
Introduction to the monographical issue
Ritual, Media, and Conflict. Ed.: Grimes, Ronald L.; Hüsken, Ute; Simon, Udo; Venbrux, Eric. (Oxford Ritual Studies, 3), 93–132, 2011
[peer-reviewed] & Thomas Quartier, Udo Simon, Jan Snoek, and Gerard Wiegers
El Pergamino y los Libros Plúmbeos del Sacromonte, 2019
El archivo de la Abadía del Sacromonte de Granada preserva un tesoro de gran importancia que fue ... more El archivo de la Abadía del Sacromonte de Granada preserva un tesoro de gran importancia que fue el tema de una conferencia pública por dos investigadores holandeses en el Palacio Arzobispal en Granada, el martes 19 de marzo 2019. El tesoro del que tratamos consiste de textos árabes escritos en un hoja de pergamino y un gran número de hojas pequeñas de plomo, descubiertos a finales del siglo XVI en un torre del antiguo mezquita catedral y en varias cuevas del Monte Valparaíso, llamado desde entonces el Sacro Monte. Estos textos árabes pertenecen a las últimas producciones literarias de los moriscos granadinos, de origen Andalusí y islámico. Los moriscos continuaron que en muchos casos su antigua fe en secreto. Con la permisión del Arzobispo de Granada, los investigadores holandeses, ambos especialistas en la historia de las religiones y la historia del islam, incluso la historia de los musulmanes que vivían como minorías en la España cristiana, están preparando un estudio, edición crítica y traducción de estas fuentes, que han sido objeto de una
fuerte polémica en el siglo XVII, y al presente se presentan de nuevo como un tema de gran interés por parte de la comunidad científico internacional. Los profesores Van
Koningsveld (Profesor emérito de Estudios Islámicos en la Universidad de Leiden) y Wiegers (Profesor de las Ciencias de las Religiones en la Universidad de Amsterdam), presentan aquí un informe científico sobre su proyecto y echan nueva luz sobre el discurso religioso de estos textos enigmáticos.
Original English title: The Sacromonte Parchment and Lead Books. Critical Edition of the Arabic T... more Original English title: The Sacromonte Parchment and Lead Books. Critical Edition of the Arabic Texts and Analysis of the Religious Ideas. Presentation of a Dutch research project, Granada, 19 March 2019, 19.00-21.00 hours. With images of the original Lead Books and the Parchment.
Co-editors: Mercedes García-Arenal (CSIC, Madrid) and Gerard Wiegers (University of Amsterdam) F... more Co-editors: Mercedes García-Arenal (CSIC, Madrid) and Gerard Wiegers (University of Amsterdam)
First published as volume 24, No. 1–3 (2018) of Medieval Encounters, this volume brings together ten studies, as well as an introduction, on medieval polemics and interreligious encounters in medieval Iberia and beyond. A preface to the new edition and a comprehensive index have been added.
Contents: "Preface to the New Edition" (Ryan Szpiech);
"Introduction: Interreligious Encounters in Polemics between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and Beyond" (Mercedes García-Arenal and Gerard Wiegers);
"Ne De Fide Presumant Disputare: Legal Regulations of Interreligious Debate and Disputation in the Middle Ages" (John Tolan); "The Brighter Side of Medieval Christian-Jewish Polemical Encounters: Transfer of Medical Knowledge in the Midi (Twelfth–Fourteenth Centuries)" (Gad Freudenthal); "Better Muslim or Jew? The Controversy around Conversion across Minorities in Fifteenth-Century Castile" (Ana Echevarría); "The Spirit of the Letter: The Hebrew Inscription in Bermejo’s Piedat Revisited" (Yonatan Glazer-Eytan); "Forgotten Witnesses: The Illustrations of Ms Escorial, I.I.3 and the Dispute over the Biblias Romanceadas" (Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto); "From Christian Polemic to a Jewish-Converso Dialogue
Jewish Skepticism and Rabbinic-Christian Traditions in the Scrutinium Scripturarum" (Yosi Yisraeli); "The Rabbi and the Mancebo: Arévalo and the Location of Affinities in the Fifteenth Century" (Eleazar Gutwirth); "The Virus in the Language: Alonso De Cartagena’s Deconstruction of the “Limpieza De Sangre” in Defensorium Unitatis Christianae (1450)" (Maria Laura Giordano); "Apologetic Glosses—Venues for Encounters: Annotations on Abraham in the Latin Translations of the Qurʾān" (Katarzyna K. Starczewska); "Vox Populi: Carnal Blood, Spiritual Milk, and the Debate Surrounding the Immaculate Conception, ca. 1600" (Felipe Pereda); "Index"
As Executive Editor of Medieval Encounters. Contents: "Between Sanudo and Fedanzola: Ashtori Ha-P... more As Executive Editor of Medieval Encounters. Contents: "Between Sanudo and Fedanzola: Ashtori Ha-Parḥi as Mediator" (Amichay Schwartz); "The Easter Ban in the Merovingian Kingdoms: Ideal and Reality" (Gregory I. Halfond);
"Review Essay about The Feeling of History. Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia by Charles Hirshkind" (Fernando Rodríguez Mediano); "Review of War and Memory at the Time of the Fifth Crusade, written by Megan Cassidy-Welch" (Nicholas Paul); "Review of Cities of Strangers: Making Lives in Medieval Europe, written by Miri Rubin" (Tanya Stabler Miller)