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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am currently a Master’s student under Dr. Tom Nickson at The Courtauld Institute of Art, and am writing my dissertation thesis on the relationship between the mudéjar plasterwork at the monastery of Las Huelgas in Burgos
and the Andalusi textiles found in the royal tombs of the same monastery. The following phrases, found in the plasterwork, have uncertain provenance which, according to Manuel Ocaña Jiménez, do not comply with Christian orthodoxy (please note the transliteration
is taken from Pablo Abella Villar’s 2015 PhD thesis and is in Spanish):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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هلل الحي - (al- Ḥayy li-lLāh, lo vivo es de Dios) <o:p></o:p> </li><li style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">
الله حسبي - (Ḥasbī Allāh, Dios me basta) <o:p></o:p> </li><li style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">
كلمة المسیح الله - (al-Masīḥ kalimat Allāh, el Mesías es la palabra de Dios) <o:p></o:p>
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الله ناّرب - (Allāh rabbunā, Dios es nuestro Señor)<o:p></o:p> </li><li style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">
نورنا یاسع - (Yāsu῾ nῡrunā, Jesús es nuestra luz) <o:p></o:p> </li><li style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">
الله روح المسیح - (al-Masīḥ rῡḥ Allāh, el Mesías es el espíritu de Dios) <o:p></o:p>
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هلل بركة - (Barakat Allāh, bendición a Dios) <o:p></o:p> </li><li style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">
هلل الملك - (al-Mulk li-lLāh, la soberanía es de Dios)<o:p></o:p> </li><li style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">
لھدانا والبركة - (al Baraka li-Hudānā, bendición a nuestro Guía)<o:p></o:p></li><li style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Miguel </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:
minor-latin">Vega Martín, Salvador Peña Martín and Manuel C. Feria García have linked the phrases to similar examples found
on Almohad coinage, whereas Pablo Abella Villar theorised that the wording is a result of Mozarabic craftsmanship, owing to the fact that the use of the word
</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:Tahoma">یاسع</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:
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</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">(Yāsu῾) to refer to Jesus Christ pertains to arabic-christian usage.
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I was wondering if anyone has come across these phrases in other contexts, Andalusi or otherwise? Is there any precise significance to the wording? If anyone is familiar with these phrases in other contexts, I’d be very interested
to learn more.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This is my first post, so I apologise if anything I ask has been mentioned previously. Thank you in advance for any light you may be able to shed on this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ella Cooper<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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