Europe Through Arab Eyes, 1578-1727

Matar, Nabil I

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“…25-26 and29-32. most important regional industries 49 . In the 1590s al-Manṣūr came to rely heavily on Sūs for military support 50 . However, the same coastal access that made Sūs so attractive to the Sa'dīs made it a target for Europeans, first the Portuguese throughout the sixteenth century and then the English and Dutch in the seventeenth century 51 .…”

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The Circulation of Foreign News and the Construction of Imperial Ideals: The Spanish Translators of Aḥmad al-Manṣūr

Gilbert¹

2015

Memoria y Civilización

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Resumen: A lo largo del reinado de Aḥmad al-Manṣūr (1578-1603), una gran cantidad de noticias e información sobre los acontecimientos políticos y religiosos de Europa circulaban en el reino de Marruecos. Dicha información aparecía en las representaciones y correspondencias elaboradas en la corte marroquí. La información fue transmitida en parte por agentes españoles, portugueses, ingleses, franceses, e holandeses, pero su incorporación en el sistema de información y representación del sultán corrió a cargo del traductor oficial español. Se adoptaron las noticias extranjeras transmitidas por el traductor español en una serie de discursos reales variados. El uso de información europea formó parte de las estrategias de representación imperial de al-Manṣūr, tanto para au-Abstract: During the reign of Aḥmad al-Manṣūr (1578-1603), a good deal of news and information about European political and religious affairs circulated in Morocco and was used in official discourses generated in the Moroccan court. This information was transmitted in part by a range of European agents from Spain, Portugal, England, France, and the Netherlands, but the key figure in its reception and use in the Moroccan court was the Spanish translator, who worked alongside al-Manṣūr's secretaries and other chancellery officials. Foreign news, as relayed by the Spanish translator, was adapted into different royal discourses and was used along with other strategies of representation to reinforce al-Manṣūr's claims to sovereign and imperial legitimacy before Muslim and Christian audien

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The Circulation of Foreign News and the Construction of Imperial Ideals: The Spanish Translators of Aḥmad al-Manṣūr

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2015

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“…Their ancestors had been expelled in 1609. 16 [7] By applying the meaning 'Spain as a whole', Muslim State is, from a historical point of view, mistaken. Moreover, the irony is that IS, by using the meaning 'Spain as a whole', is in a sense more 'modest' in its territorial claims than early medieval history might justify: why not claim 'muslim Portugal', too?…”

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“…14 Since the 16 th century, Spain has been indicated in Arabic by Isbaniya or Ishbanya 15 [7] and discerned from the historical name Andalus. Among some descendants of expelled muslim emigrants, however, Andalus remained in use with reference to their former home country.…”

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“…See also https://www.google.nl/search?q=rabitat+vertaling&oq=r A&aqs=chrome.1.69i59l3j69i60j69i57j69i60.4467j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=galli%C3%AB+vertaling+arabisch did, however, not refer to France but to other geographical entities. As a matter of fact, the usual medieval-Arabic name for the Frankish empire ( Figure 7) [7] The Gaul terminology in Arabic sources originates from the beginning of the 9 th century, when the earliest Arabic translations of Ptolemy's geographical oeuvre were made and Gallia was transcribed in Arabic script.…”

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“…mediamatters.org/blog/2014/07/03/why-is-the-media-taking-these-isis-worlddomina/199984 ) and Info Wars 27 June 2014 (https://www.infowars.com/warpropaganda-the-isis-five-year-plan/ ). 7 See Hosken 2015: 260-261. 8 See http://en.bab.la/dictionary/english-arabic.…”

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