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The many languages of the self in the early modern Mediterranean

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The many languages of the self in the early modern Mediterranean

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Anselm Turmeda/‘Abdallāh al-Turjumān (1355–1423) – Friar, Muslim convert and translator

The many languages of the self in the early modern Mediterranean

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The many languages of the self in the early modern Mediterranean book

Anselm Turmeda/‘Abdallāh al-Turjumān (1355–1423) – Friar, Muslim convert and translator
ByElisabetta Benigni
BookConversion and Islam in the Early Modern Mediterranean

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Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2017
Imprint Routledge
Pages 29
eBook ISBN 9781315574189

ABSTRACT

This chapter examines the problematic reception of the idea of the multiplication of identities, mobility and conversion in the early modern Mediterranean. It argues that before the era of the confessionalisation of empires, the porous space of the Mediterranean offered to travellers and scholars like Anselm Turmeda/'Abdallah al-Turjuman opportunities for the transgression of borders and the multiplication of identities. The 'liquid archive' of the Mediterranean is rich with fictive and real stories of conversion. Places cited in the Tuhfa’s first-person story encompass various important centres of the Mediterranean early modern geography of learning. The place of birth of Anselm Turmeda/'Abdallah al-Turjuman, Catalonia, was the centre of the Aragonese Empire, which dominated the Mediterranean during the fourteenth century, its maritime power confronting the Muslim sultanates further along the coast. The chapter presents the fascinating story of the text's circulation, reception and re-framing across different regions of the Mediterranean during the early modern and modern periods.

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