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Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-Ḥajarī. Kitāb Nāṣir al-Dīn ʿalā ’l-Qawm al-Kāfirīn. (The Supporter of Religion against the Infidels), edited by Koningsveld, P.S., Q. Al-Samarrai, and G.A. Wiegers

Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-Ḥajarī. Kitāb Nāṣir al-Dīn ʿalā ’l-Qawm al-Kāfirīn. (The Supporter of Religion... Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-Ḥajarī. Kitāb Nāṣir al-Dīn ʿalā ’l-Qawm al-Kāfirīn. (The Supporter of Religion against the Infidels). 2nd ed. (Fuentes Arábico-Hispanas, 35). Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (csic), Madrid, 2015.Kitāb Nāṣir al-Dīn ʿalā ’l-Qawm al-Kāfirīn, composed in 1637 in Egypt at the request of the Malikite Azhar scholar al-Ujhūrī, is the autobiographical account of the life of Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-Ḥajarī, a Morisco from Hornachos, (b. ca. 1569‒1570) born under the Christian name of Diego Bejarano. Al-Ḥajarī lived in Spain for thirty years and then sailed from Cádiz to Mazagan to finally reach Marrakech in 1599, where he was received by Al-Manṣūr. After settling in, he was appointed by Muley Zaydan as his secretary and translator in 1608. Al-Ḥajarī’s biographical accounts are described in the Kitāb Nāṣir al-Dīn including the journey he took to France and Holland on a diplomatic mission. During his itineraries—which were also narrated in his other book, Riḥlat al-Shihāb ilā liqāʾ al-aḥbāb, now lost—he engaged in interreligious debates and had contact with European scholars such as French physician Étienne Hubert (1614) and Arabist Thomas Erpenius (1567–1614). Al-Ḥajarī played a significant role as an intellectual agent and mediator in Spain and in exile, in contact with http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Medieval Encounters Brill

Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-Ḥajarī. Kitāb Nāṣir al-Dīn ʿalā ’l-Qawm al-Kāfirīn. (The Supporter of Religion against the Infidels), edited by Koningsveld, P.S., Q. Al-Samarrai, and G.A. Wiegers

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Medieval Encounters , Volume 23 (6): 4 – Dec 7, 2017
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Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-Ḥajarī. Kitāb Nāṣir al-Dīn ʿalā ’l-Qawm al-Kāfirīn. (The Supporter of Religion against the Infidels). 2nd ed. (Fuentes Arábico-Hispanas, 35). Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (csic), Madrid, 2015.Kitāb Nāṣir al-Dīn ʿalā ’l-Qawm al-Kāfirīn, composed in 1637 in Egypt at the request of the Malikite Azhar scholar al-Ujhūrī, is the autobiographical account of the life of Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-Ḥajarī, a Morisco from Hornachos, (b. ca. 1569‒1570) born under the Christian name of Diego Bejarano. Al-Ḥajarī lived in Spain for thirty years and then sailed from Cádiz to Mazagan to finally reach Marrakech in 1599, where he was received by Al-Manṣūr. After settling in, he was appointed by Muley Zaydan as his secretary and translator in 1608. Al-Ḥajarī’s biographical accounts are described in the Kitāb Nāṣir al-Dīn including the journey he took to France and Holland on a diplomatic mission. During his itineraries—which were also narrated in his other book, Riḥlat al-Shihāb ilā liqāʾ al-aḥbāb, now lost—he engaged in interreligious debates and had contact with European scholars such as French physician Étienne Hubert (1614) and Arabist Thomas Erpenius (1567–1614). Al-Ḥajarī played a significant role as an intellectual agent and mediator in Spain and in exile, in contact with

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