This book is due to be released Febuary 2027. It is available on backorder.
This book offers the first systematic comparative study of Aljamiado as a genuinely European phenomenon. Moving beyond regional approaches, it brings together three major Islamic manuscript traditions: the writings of the Mudéjars and Moriscos of the Iberian Peninsula, the Bosnian corpus, and the textual culture of the Tatars of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. By proposing ‘European Aljamiado’ as a new analytical framework, the authors show how Muslim communities across early modern Europe transmitted, translated, adapted, and localized Islamic knowledge in vernacular languages written in Arabic script. Attentive to political, linguistic, confessional, and cultural diversity, the book reveals both a shared Islamic foundation and distinctive local forms of textual creativity. Combining philology, codicology, linguistics, literary history, and manuscript studies, it makes a major contribution to Aljamiado studies and opens new perspectives on religion, translation, and Europe’s multilingual manuscript cultures.
Nuria de Castilla is a full professor of History of the Book and Arabic Codicology at the École Pratique des Hautes Études – PSL (Paris). Her main research explores the Mudéjar and Morisco written culture in Arabic and Aljamiado, and the production and transmission of the Qur’an in the Islamic West.
Anna Cychnerska is an associate professor (dr hab.) of linguistics at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Her research focuses on South and East Slavic linguistics, including language contact and interference, the historical development of the languages of the former Yugoslavia, Slavic phonotactics, and word-formation in Balkan Slavic languages.
Joanna Kulwicka-Kamińska is a full professor of linguistics at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Her research focuses on the Aljamiado manuscript literature of the Lithuanian–Polish Tatars (Kitabistics), Slavic–Oriental language contacts, translation studies with particular reference to Semitic and Slavic languages, and dialectology.
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