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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Between 1609 and 1614, after over a century of forced conversions, cultural oppression and inquisitorial persecution, Spain expelled its morisco subjects. Despite being baptised Christians, the descendants of Spain's Muslim population had been deemed incapable of sincerely following the Christian faith and assimilating into society due to ...
Elizabeth Liliann Blakemore
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Notation in Early Modern Language Teaching
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the use of musical notation as a pedagogical tool in early modern language teaching, focusing on Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and briefly, Turkish. While musical notation is typically associated with performance and composition, the sources discussed here demonstrate its broader application as a visual and conceptual system for ...
Elisabeth Giselbrecht
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Ottoman gunpowder artillery in Bulgaria: archaeological and textual evidence
Българско е-Списание за АрхеологияThe paper examines specific artifacts – stone balls of various sizes – that constitute significant material remnants of Ottoman military history in Bulgaria.
Chavdar Kirilov
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Framing Peninsular Crypto‐Jews as Part of the Sephardic Diaspora
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT When we talk about the Sephardic diaspora, we often talk about Iberian conversos who leave the Peninsula, supposedly to live openly as Jews in places like Algiers, Venice, Amsterdam or the Ottoman Empire. But what about those conversos who continued to identify in some way as Jews but who remained in Spain and Portugal?
David A. Wacks
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, 2023 This article explores the teaching of Ottoman history and the image of the Ottomans through a close and critical reading of Malaysian secondary history textbooks used between 1989 and 2022.
Mohd Noor Merican, Ahmad Murad +1 more
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A Village on the Outskirts of the Ottoman Empire: Archaeological Research at Tell Zeyd
Annali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie OrientaleThis paper presents the most recent results from the research programme Zeyd Archaeological Project; launched in 2022, this project aims at exploring economy and society in the hinterland of the historical province of Mosul in the long Islamic period ...
Tonghini, Cristina +3 more
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Languages, Memory and Religion: The Literature of the Morisco Diaspora
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Literature written by the Moriscos during their diaspora in North Africa, especially in the 17th century, offers three fundamental pillars for its analysis: the languages in which it is written, their emotional and intellectual relationship with their land of origin and their host countries, and, finally, religion.
Luis Bernabé Pons
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Kharaj and land proprietary right in the sixteenth century: An example of law and economics [PDF]
Kharaj (land-tax) has been a controversial subject since the formative period of Islamic jurisprudence. It is said that Muslim jurists have been very conservative while dealing with the subject of kharaj. But this is wrong perception or opinion.
Islahi, Abdul Azim
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Iberian Scepticism in Istanbul: The Hebrew Philosophical Dialogue Attributed to Don Joseph Nasi
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT On 28 April 1577, the printer Joseph Ya’abetz in Constantinople printed a rare Hebrew pamphlet titled Ben Porat Yosef (Joseph, the Offspring of a Fertile Tree). Its author, Isaac ben Samuel Onkeneira, claims to report a philosophical debate between Don Joseph Nasi (1524–1579), the powerful Portuguese‐born agent at the Ottoman court, and a ...
Carsten L. Wilke
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