
Embracing Muslims in a Catholic Land: Rethinking the Genesis of Islam in Mexico
Jonathan Benzion(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 15. March 2022
Book
Hardback
262 pages
978-90-04-51030-2 (ISBN)
Description
This study presents a contrasting hypothesis concerning the genesis and development of Islam in Mexico than the one generally held across academic spheres and current historiography. It demonstrates that Colonial and Early Independent Mexico and Islam may have as well known about the existence of each other. However, within the chronological framework in which the Viceroyalty of Nueva Espana lived and developed there were social hindrance, geopolitical imperatives and theological impediments and cosmovisions - in both sides of the Atlantic - that created the quasi- perfect circumstances for the Islamic tradition and Mexico not to really meet. This book provides new angles of study on the theme, and with it, new historiographical approaches.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
564 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-51030-2 (9789004510302)
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Person
Jonathan Benzion is a PhD Candidate in Iberian and Latin American Studies at Sorbonne Universite. His scholarly interests meet at an interdisciplinary intellectual carrefour that oscillates between History of the Middle East and Islamic and Jewish Studies, to History of Mexico and Iberian and Latin American Studies.
Content
Preface
Introduction: On Hispania, Islam, Mexico, and Religious Tradition
1 Imagined Communities: An Islamic New World in Pre-Columbian Times
2 Fiction in the Archives: An Islamic Tradition in the Viceroyalty of Nueva Espana
3 Taqiyyah, Fatwas, and Cedulas Reales: A Novohispanic Crypto-Islam between Paradigm, Folk Tale, and Faith
4 Hidden Heretics in New Spain: Myth, Legend, and Evidence of the Abrahamic Religious Traditions of Colonial Mexico
5 The Corps Expeditionnaire Francais of Napoleon III and an Islamic Resurgence in Mexico (1862-1867): Reassessing the Question
6 Le Bataillon Negre Egyptien and the Resurfacing of Islam in Mexico (1862-1867): Rethinking the Equation
Conclusion: A Reappraisal of Claims versus Evidence
Sources
Bibliography
Index
Introduction: On Hispania, Islam, Mexico, and Religious Tradition
1 Imagined Communities: An Islamic New World in Pre-Columbian Times
2 Fiction in the Archives: An Islamic Tradition in the Viceroyalty of Nueva Espana
3 Taqiyyah, Fatwas, and Cedulas Reales: A Novohispanic Crypto-Islam between Paradigm, Folk Tale, and Faith
4 Hidden Heretics in New Spain: Myth, Legend, and Evidence of the Abrahamic Religious Traditions of Colonial Mexico
5 The Corps Expeditionnaire Francais of Napoleon III and an Islamic Resurgence in Mexico (1862-1867): Reassessing the Question
6 Le Bataillon Negre Egyptien and the Resurfacing of Islam in Mexico (1862-1867): Rethinking the Equation
Conclusion: A Reappraisal of Claims versus Evidence
Sources
Bibliography
Index