Arabic Translation at the End of Imperial Spain (1714-1814)
Casa Hispanica Columbia 612 W 116th St, New YorkSpeaker: Claire Gilbert (University of Saint Louis) Respondent: TBA Moderators: Pier Mattia Tommasino (Columbia University, Italian) and Seth Kimmel (Columbia University, LAIC) This paper studies how scholars and politicians of the Ilustración relied on medieval precedents in Spanish Arabism for philological and political projects. Those precedents were related to the politics of belonging and exclusion which shaped early modern Spanish society. Their memory and…