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Visions of Deliverance: Moriscos and the Politics of Prophecy in the Early Modern Mediterranean Hardcover – Illustrated, January 15, 2020

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In Visions of Deliverance, Mayte Green-Mercado traces the circulation of Muslim and crypto-Muslim apocalyptic texts known as joferes through formal and informal networks of merchants, Sufis, and other channels of diffusion among Muslims and Christians across the Mediterranean from Constantinople and Venice to Morisco towns in eastern Spain. The movement of these prophecies from the eastern to the western edges of the Mediterranean illuminates strategies of Morisco cultural and political resistance, reconstructing both productive and oppositional interactions and exchanges between Muslims and Christians in the early modern Mediterranean.

Challenging a historiography that has primarily understood Morisco apocalyptic thought as the expression of a defeated group that was conscious of the loss of their culture and identity, Green-Mercado depicts Moriscos not simply as helpless victims of Christian oppression but as political actors whose use of end-times discourse helped define and construct their society anew. Visions of Deliverance helps us understand the implications of confessionalization, forced conversion, and assimilation in the early modern period and the intellectual and theological networks that shaped politics and identity across the Mediterranean in this era.

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  1. Print length
    330 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Cornell University Press
  4. Publication date
    January 15, 2020
  5. Reading age
    18 years and up
  6. Dimensions
    6 x 1.12 x 9 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    1501741462
  8. ISBN-13
    978-1501741463
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This work adds a crucial perspective to the growing body of scholarship that challenges the conception of a fixed, monolithic Morisco identity and the perception that Moriscos were a beleaguered group in need of rescue. Visions of Deliverance offers readers a fresh perspective on Morisco social, religious, and political beliefs and practices.

― Comitatus

Moriscos stand tall in this book as historical agents (both individually and collectively), actors on a political world stage, some with dreams of an Ottoman Last World Emperor, others of a French; some with dreams of a return of Islam to Al-Andalus, others with the hope of being able to live peacefully 'under their own law.' With Visions of Deliverance, Mayte Green-Mercado has made a significant contribution to Mediterranean history. There is much in this excellent book that will be new to both experts and students alike

― SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL

This excellent book should find a ready audience in readers interested in Morisco history and culture, and in prophetic and political discourse in early modern Islam, Iberia, and the Mediterranean as a whole.

― Visions of Deliverance

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Visions of Deliverance is of high quality, based on extensive research and clearly written. It utilizes both inquisitorial records, heretofore the main source for our understanding of the Moriscos, as well as the aljamiado literature to make a strong case for the importance of prophecies in shaping and defining an unstable Morisco population.

-- Ben Ehlers, University of Georgia

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cornell University Press; Illustrated edition (January 15, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 330 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1501741462
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1501741463
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.12 x 9 inches
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This is a readable and enjoyable delve into the identity of the 16th century Moriscos, utilizing new apocalyptic and prophetic framework to understand Morisco culture.
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