Die Iberische Halbinsel als christlichmuslimischer Begegnungsraum im Spiegel von Transfer- und Transformationsprozessen des 12.-15. Jahrhunderts

Abstract

This paper describes the Iberian Peninsula from the perspective of the many processes of transfer and transformation that occurred in it from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, owing to which it became a place of encounter between Christians and Muslims. Particular attention is paid to translations of religious texts made by Christians about Islam, which were on the one hand modes of knowledge and interpretation of a culture, and on the other hand special means for the integration and disintegration of the Muslim population. On gathering together the manuscript tradition currently available of these translations and determining their background, the people involved, the places, circumstances and historical contexts, the paper lays the foundations for the possibility of a complete history of the inter-Christian reception of this transmission process.