The Profile and Possible Origin of Ramon Llull’s Muslim Slave
[eng] As Ramon Llull recalls in Vita coaetanea, after his «conversion to penitence» he bought a Muslim slave in Mallorca to learn Arabic from him. Our understanding of Llull’s intellectual profile and his possible debt to the Western Islamicate world is coloured by the way in which...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2022 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universidad de las Islas Baleares |
| Repository: | Biblioteca Digital de les Illes Balears |
| OAI Identifier: | studiaLulliana:Studia_Lulliana_2022v062p067 |
| Online Access: | http://ibdigital.uib.es/greenstone/sites/oai-site/collect/studiaLulliana/index/assoc/Studia_L/ulliana_/2022v062/p067-1.dir/Studia_Lulliana_2022v062p067.pdf http://ibdigital.uib.es/greenstone/library/collection/studiaLulliana/document/Studia_Lulliana_2022v062p067 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Llull, Ramon, 1232 o 1233-1315 o 1316 History |
| Summary: | [eng] As Ramon Llull recalls in Vita coaetanea, after his «conversion to penitence» he bought a Muslim slave in Mallorca to learn Arabic from him. Our understanding of Llull’s intellectual profile and his possible debt to the Western Islamicate world is coloured by the way in which we understand the influence that Llull’s Muslim slave had on the formation of Llull’s views. To date, Llull’s slave has received little attention. Since Mallorca was home to a population of Muslim slaves, the Mallorcan origin of Llull’s slave has been taken for granted. Consequently, since Llull’s tutor is believed to have been uneducated and enslaved for more than thirty years by the time he began teaching Arabic to Llull, he has not been deemed an important vector influencing Llull’s thought. This article seeks to provide a hypothesis of the profile and origin of Ramon Llull’s Muslim slave. It concludes that Llull’s tutor was an educated Muslim slave who originated beyond the island in an active Islamic polity with urban areas and a rich intellectual life. Considering the historical context when Llull bought his Muslim slave, the most likely origin of Llull’s Muslim slave and tutor is the region of Murcia. |
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