Moriscos read twelfth-century Baghdadi devotional works copied fresh in the fifteenth century

Evidence

By him we have Salwat al-ahzan (Consolation in times of sorrow), J 38 in the Almonacid collection. This Madrid manuscript is in Arabic, and there is no aljamiado translation extant, but the copy of the Arabic text found at Almonacid was, according to As´ın (in the catalog to the collection), made in the fifteenth or sixteenth century (i.e., it is not one of the many books of greater antiquity preserved in this library). Placing it in what he calls the “homilectic” genre, As´ın describes it as a “collection of narratives designed to move to devotion” (Ribera and Asin 1912, 148). Beginning with an account of Abraham’s worship at the Kaba, and going on to accounts of Old Testament prophets incorporating material of patent Haggadic and Christian origin, there are stories concerning Muhammad and his Companions, and the incomplete volume as we have it ends with Judgment Day and details of resurrection. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 721

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader pattern of how marginalized religious communities reach across time and space for orthodox sources of authority — parallel to earlier chapters on Morisco self-definition.