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This book shows how Muslim communities across early modern Europe transmitted, translated, adapted, and localized Islamic knowledge in vernacular languages written in Arabic script.

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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.

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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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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 THE ALJAMIADO PHENOMENON IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE: DEFINITIONS, AREA, LANGUAGE The Aljamiado Phenomenon in Early Modern Europe: Comparative Summary CHAPTER 2 STATE OF RESEARCH 2.1 The State of Research on Mudéjares and Moriscos Manuscript Heritage: Past and Present 2.2 Development and research directions in Bosnian Aljamiado literature 2.3 Studying the Manuscript Heritage of the Tatars of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: State of Research 2.4 State of Research: Comparative Summary CHAPTER 3 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND – CONDITIONS, GENESIS 3.1 Communicative Needs and the Emergence of a New Written Variant of Spanish 3.2 The Balkans in the Ottoman Era 3.3 Tatar Settlement in Slavic Lands 3.4 Historical Background: Comparative Summary CHAPTER 4 GEOGRAPHY AND CHRONOLOGY 4.1 Aljamiado Literature in the Iberian Peninsula: Origins and Chronology 4.2 The Origins and Chronology of Aljamiado in Bosnia and Herzegovina 4.3 The Tatars of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth: Geography, Religious Life, and a Chronology of Their Aljamiado Texts 4.4 Geography and Chronology: Comparative Summary CHAPTER 5 AUTHORS AND COPYISTS IN ALJAMIADO LITERATURE 5.1 Mudéjares and Moriscos Authors and Copyists 5.2 Authors and Copyists in the Literary Culture of Bosnian Aljamiado 5.3 Tatar Authors and Copyists: Education, Social Status, and Competence in Oriental and Slavic Languages 5.4 Authors and Copyists in Aljamiado Literature: Comparative Summary CHAPTER 6 THE ALPHABET AND THE LANGUAGE 6.1 Adaptation of Arabic Script to Iberian Languages 6.2 Adaptation of Arabic Script to Bosnian 6.3 Languages and Script in Tatar Aljamiado Literature 6.4 The Alphabet and the Language: Comparative Summary CHAPTER 7 TRANSCRIPTION AND TRANSLITERATION 7.1 Transliteration of Mudéjares and Moriscos Aljamiado Manuscripts 7.2 Transliteration and Transcription of Bosnian Aljamiado 7.3 Towards a Unified Transliteration and Transcription for Tatar Arabic-script Texts 7.4 Transcription and Transliteration: Comparative Summary CHAPTER 8 TEXT TYPES AND TOPICS OF ALJAMIADO LITERATURE 8.1 Texts and Topics of Mudéjar and Morisco Literature 8.2 Types of Texts and Themes in Bosnian Aljamiado 8.3 Text Types and Topics in the Manuscripts of the Tatars of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania 8.4 Text Types and Topics of Aljamiado Literature: Comparative Summary CONCLUSION: ALJAMIADO IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE: TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED HISTORY REFERENCES Index of proper names (place names and personal names) Index of Manuscripts and Notable Prints

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