The Day of Judgment and its signs in aljamiado-morisco literature and popular Islam
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https://doi.org/10.34624/fb.v0i16.25217Keywords:
literature aljamiado-morisca, signs of day of the judgment, popular Islam, apocalypse, eschatologyAbstract
This contribution intends first to trace the conceptual framework of the Islamic apocalyptic (the minor and major signs, the Daǧǧāl or Antichrist, the trumpet, the bridge, the intercession of the Prophet, the Uprising, the Resurrection, the Meeting, the presentation of the «Book of Acts», the Balance, Paradise and Hell). These themes are also present in aljamiado-morisca literature, the so-called Islamic variant of Spanish literature of the sixteenth century. The apocalyptic text that had most widespread among the Moriscos was L-alḥadīẕ del Ḏía del Judiçyo, with its seven manuscript testimonies whose filiation is offered. Although the Arabic original has not been found, two sources have been identified: the Bustān al-Wāciẓīn of Ibn al-Ǧawzī and another anonymous one (Borg. ar. 161 of the Vatican Library). This highlights the importance of the eschatological and popular eschatological literature, exhortative genre (mawciẓa) to which Bustān al-Wāciẓīn or Salwat al-Aḥzān belong. Finally, the exhortative genre is linked to the preaching of the faqihs among the Moriscos population and to the elaboration and dissemination of manuscript copies. The popularity of these stories is inseparable from the beliefs in prophecies and the identification of the signs of the Day of Judgment with contemporary events. This occurred both in Moriscos times and in modern times.
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