“Paladino coraçon”: Job in Aljamiado Literature and Exegetical Early Modern Islamic Texts
“Paladino coraçon”: Job in Aljamiado Literature and Exegetical Early Modern Islamic Texts

Summary/Abstract: Aljamiado literature, a product of the Hispanic Islamic community in Early Modern Iberia, reflects an identity in tension between cultural assimilation and religious re-sistance. Its bilingual nature and its use of Arabic script respond both to a practical necessity and an identity issue. In this context, the figure of Job (Ayyūb) appears in aljamiado literature in various forms, particularly in “explicit and focused” narratives, where he embodies patience and submission to God. The aljamiado version of the story of Job stands out for its expressiveness, symbolic elements, and emotional di-mension, which are absent from its biblical and Quranic sources. El Mancebo de Arévalo, in his Tafçira, presents an etopoeia of Job that portrays him as a model of wisdom, patience, and generosity, in a narrative that, beyond preserving Islamic iden-tity, reflects the cultural friction of the Morisco community with its Christian surroundings.

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