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Scriptor noster arabicus et tursimany: Jewish Culture Mediation in the Thirteenth-Century Crown of Aragón

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Scriptor noster arabicus et tursimany: Jewish Culture Mediation in the Thirteenth-Century Crown of Aragón

[Thesis]

Dillon Brian-Thomas Webster

Catlos, Brian A.

University of Colorado at Boulder

2017

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Committee members: Dauverd, Celine; Sacks, Elias

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-64752-5

M.A.

Religious Studies

University of Colorado at Boulder

2017

This thesis examines the role of intermediaries and cultural mediators in shaping the relations between the thirteenth-century Crown of Aragón and the Muslim Mediterranean. Exemplified by the life of Abrahim Abenamies, these agents crossed with ease between the cultures, languages, religions, and political environments of the Western Mediterranean. In his role as agent of the Crown, fluidity was an asset for Abenamies and his royal patrons. Fluidity, however, also introduces an impediment for the modern researcher as identity boundaries seem to shift with movement and personal loyalties appear temporary. Because of the dynamic nature of my subject, I rely on the Mediterranean Perspective in order to properly disentangle the webs of actions, loyalties, and responsibilities that enfolded Abenamies. The Mediterranean Perspective provides me with the necessary tools to analyze Abenamies in his proper context as an intermediary and ask questions that highlight the centrality of cultural mediation in the thirteenth-century.

Islamic Studies; Medieval history; Judaic studies

Social sciences;Christians;Crown of aragon;Diplomacy;Jews;Mediterranean;Muslims

Shafiq, Faisal

Catlos, Brian A.

Religious Studies

University of Colorado at Boulder

2019646075; 10605658

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