Arabic Sources

Tasks Handled by this Research Group:

  • Intertextuality: Arabic literature, Arabic historiography and Islamic exegesis and thought.
  • Influences of the Arabic language on Alphonsine prose (the Arabisms of the GE). Transmission of classical and biblical material through Arabic sources.
  • Writing strategies: Treatment of key female characters, historical/ mythical/ sacred figures, spaces and verbal mappings, zoology and geography