Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Anjela Peck attended the Middle East Studies Association Conference held in Washington, D.C,. on Nov. 22-25. She presented a paper titled "Of Prophets: Exploring Christian-Muslim Spaces in Early Modern Spanish Muslim Texts." The paper looked at the anonymous 16th-century Muslim-authored text, "The Hadith of the Death of Muhammad," written in aljamiado (Spanish transliterated through the Arabic alphabet and seasoned with Arabic words and phrases).
Peck argued that this Spanish Muslim version of the prophet Muhammad's (un)timely demise looks strikingly like the death and sacrifice of another major religious figure -- Jesus at Golgotha. This reading revises scholarly work on the orthodoxy of early modern Spanish Muslims' religious beliefs.
Peck argued that this Spanish Muslim version of the prophet Muhammad's (un)timely demise looks strikingly like the death and sacrifice of another major religious figure -- Jesus at Golgotha. This reading revises scholarly work on the orthodoxy of early modern Spanish Muslims' religious beliefs.
