Magic and Popular Medicine in Spanish Aljamiado-Texts

Magic and Popular Medicine in Spanish Aljamiado-Texts

Till Raczek (University of Tübingen)

Abstract

In this paper some parts of  Aljamiado manuscripts from Spain will be presented that deal with magic and popular medicine. These Aljamiado texts were written down by the Moriscos, the last Muslims who stayed in Spain after the Reconquista of 1492. These texts were written in Arabic characters, but mostly not in Arabic, but Aljamía, i.e. Spanish, although in nearly all the manuscripts there are also passages in Arabic.

Keywords

Aljamiado texts, Moriscos, Islamic magic, Islamic popular medicine