<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On Muslim oath-taking, see “Swearing by God: Muslim Oath-Taking in Late Medieval and Early Modern Christian Iberia,” <i class="">Medieval Encounters</i> 20, no. 2 (2014): 117–51.<br class="">and her other work (including dissertation) on the topic.<div class="">Ryan<br class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 17, 2017, at 12:39 PM, <a href="mailto:andalusi_studies-request@lists.uoregon.edu" class="">andalusi_studies-request@lists.uoregon.edu</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">Send Andalusi_Studies mailing list submissions to<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="mailto:andalusi_studies@lists.uoregon.edu" class="">andalusi_studies@lists.uoregon.edu</a><br class=""><br class="">To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>https://lists.uoregon.edu/mailman/listinfo/andalusi_studies<br class="">or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>andalusi_studies-request@lists.uoregon.edu<br class=""><br class="">You can reach the person managing the list at<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>andalusi_studies-owner@lists.uoregon.edu<br class=""><br class="">When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br class="">than "Re: Contents of Andalusi_Studies digest..."<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Today's Topics:<br class=""><br class=""> 1. Re: "Jurar a l'alquibla"? Oaths made in qibla<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>or facing East?<br class=""> (Brian Catlos)<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">----------------------------------------------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">Message: 1<br class="">Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 10:38:42 -0600<br class="">From: Brian Catlos <bcatlos@portal9.info><br class="">To: "Nickson, Tom" <Tom.Nickson@courtauld.ac.uk><br class="">Cc: "andalusi_studies@lists.uoregon.edu"<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><andalusi_studies@lists.uoregon.edu><br class="">Subject: Re: [Andalusi Studies] "Jurar a l'alquibla"? Oaths made in<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>qibla<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>or facing East?<br class="">Message-ID: <0AB97831-D00E-4B06-9EC7-2E50C54170FC@portal9.info><br class="">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br class=""><br class="">For Mudejar oaths <br class="">see <br class="">Vicens, Belen. ?Swearing By God: Muslim Oath-Taking in Late Medieval and Early Modern Christian Iberia.? Medieval Encounters 20 (2014): 117?51.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Mar 17, 2017, at 10:27 AM, Nickson, Tom <Tom.Nickson@courtauld.ac.uk> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Dear David<br class=""><br class="">I found these references amongst my notes:<br class=""><br class="">Ab? al-?asan ?Al? al-Jazn???, 'Jany zahrat al-??s f? bin?? mad?nat F?s' (Alfred Bel, ed, La fleur du myrte, Algiers, 1932), p. 135, n. 1: records that oaths were sworn over the Qur?an in the mihrab of the Qarawiyyin mosque in Fez<br class=""><br class="">Angel Canellas L?pez, Diplomatario medieval de la Casa de Ganaderos de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, 1988, doc. 105: records local Muslims swearing oaths at the mosque portal in 1273.<br class=""><br class="">Delfina Serrano, 'Twelve Court Cases on the Application of Penal Law under the Almoravids', in: Muhammad Khalid Masud, Rudolph Peters and David Stephan Powers, eds, Dispensing justice in Islam: Qadis and their judgements, Leiden, 2006, 473-494, 488 and n. 38: Ibn Rushd al-Jadd records that in the Almoravid period oaths were sworn in front of the qibla wall on Friday afternoons.<br class=""><br class="">best, Tom<br class=""><br class="">Dr Tom Nickson<br class="">Lecturer in Medieval Art and Architecture<br class="">Associate Dean for Students<br class="">The Courtauld Institute of Art, London<br class="">https://courtauld.academia.edu/TomNickson <https://courtauld.academia.edu/TomNickson><br class="">The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 0RN <br class="">www.courtauld.ac.uk <http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/> <br class=""><br class="">Now open at The Courtauld Gallery: Reading Drawings <http://courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/what-on/exhibitions-displays/reading-drawings><br class="">21 January ? 4 June 2017<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">From: andalusi_studies-bounces@lists.uoregon.edu <mailto:andalusi_studies-bounces@lists.uoregon.edu> <andalusi_studies-bounces@lists.uoregon.edu <mailto:andalusi_studies-bounces@lists.uoregon.edu>> on behalf of Glick, Thomas F <tglick@bu.edu <mailto:tglick@bu.edu>><br class="">Sent: 17 March 2017 14:09:29<br class="">To: David Wacks<br class="">Cc: andalusi_studies@lists.uoregon.edu <mailto:andalusi_studies@lists.uoregon.edu><br class="">Subject: Re: [Andalusi Studies] "Jurar a l'alquibla"? Oaths made in qibla or facing East?<br class=""><br class="">Here?s a rather full description in a court case from Sumac?rcer in the Ribera Alta del J?car in 1433: el testimoni qui jura a deu girada la cara alquibla segons ?una e xara de moros?? Arxiu del Regne de Val?ncia, Governaci?, Plets, 2249, 7th hand, fol. 40r (18 July 1433). One would expect ?a l?alquibla? but the scribe has elided the article. The sense is witness swears having turned his face to the East. <br class=""><br class="">TG<br class=""><br class="">On Mar 17, 2017, at 1:49 AM, David Wacks <wacks@uoregon.edu <mailto:wacks@uoregon.edu>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Dear colleagues:<br class=""><br class="">In Joanot Martorell's Tirant lo Blanc, Muslim characters are asked to jurar a l'alquibla (as if they were swearing on the Bible) more than once. Does this reflect any historical practice or reference to making an oath of particular force while standing in the qibla, or perhaps while facing East, or is it just a fanciful construction of the author?<br class=""><br class="">Thanks very much for any light you can shed on this question.<br class=""><br class="">Best regards,<br class="">David<br class=""><br class="">------------------------------------<br class="">David Wacks<br class="">Professor of Spanish<br class="">UO Dept of Romance Languages<br class="">agenda <http://davidwacks.uoregon.edu/agenda> / blog <http://davidwacks.uoregon.edu/> / cv <http://davidwacks.uoregon.edu/cv/> / twitter <https://twitter.com/davidwacks> / hcommons.org <http://hcommons.org/>_______________________________________________<br class="">Andalusi_Studies mailing list<br class="">Andalusi_Studies@lists.uoregon.edu <mailto:Andalusi_Studies@lists.uoregon.edu><br class="">https://lists.uoregon.edu/mailman/listinfo/andalusi_studies <https://lists.uoregon.edu/mailman/listinfo/andalusi_studies><br class=""><br class="">The Courtauld Institute of Art is a company limited by guarantee (registered in England and Wales, number 04464432) and an exempt charity. 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