Islamic Literature in Spanish and Aljamiado: Yca of Segovia (Fl. 1450, His Antecedents and Successors) Review

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Islamic Literature in Spanish and Aljamiado: Yca of Segovia (Fl. 1450, His Antecedents and Successors) Review786
I humbly begin my comments on this extraordinary and extraordinarily relevant work; the author has demonstrated such a level of insight and I would say genius in his brilliant analysis of the life and times of the hitherto obscure Yca de Segovia (whose actual name the author asserts quite probably was 'Isa Ash-Shadhilli), a brilliant Mudejar "alfaqui" (Moorish Islamic scholar)of Segovia, Castille, living under the Reconquista. Absolutely a must-read for anyone interested in the history of the Moriscos, their forgotten genius and legacy, and the Spanish language in general. The author brilliantly reconstitutes the life and works of the alfaqui 'Isa, how he most likely provided the Mudejars and soon-to-be Moriscos with the first translation/rendering of the (Arabic) Holy Qur'an into Castellano Spanish [one of the earliest ever renderings of the Holy Qur'an into any language?], and the tremendous implications that this work, as well as his compilation of works such as the Breviario Sunni (a Maliki fiqh book), had on their religious life. The author wrote his works in the now-dead "Aljamia" language (Romance written in the Arabic alphabet), which was similar to the Ladino of the Iberian Jews.
In my humble opinion (as a humble lay-person!), this is scholastic work of the highest order. The author painstakingly reconstructs the abovementioned works for which there is very little extant information available, and in doing so has created a work which is invigoratingly interesting and at the same time extraordinarily relevant to the student of Morisco history and Muslim minority history in general. Five emphatic stars!Islamic Literature in Spanish and Aljamiado: Yca of Segovia (Fl. 1450, His Antecedents and Successors) OverviewThis work is an historical study of the Islamic writings in Spanish and Aljamiado (Spanish in Arabic script) of the Muslim minorities in medieval Christian Spain, the Mudejars and Moriscos. It is based on Christian sources, such as archival documents and the writings of Yca Gidelli, jurist of the Mudejar community of Segovia (Castile). Of crucial importance to the history of Islamic Spanish literature, Yca's best-known work is a Spanish translation of the Qur'an made at the request of bishop John of Segovia. This study follows the early history of Islamic writings in the vernacular (13th-14th centuries), continues with a description of Yca's writings and biography, and finally deals with his influence on Moriscos in the 16th and 17th centuries.

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