Abstract
Hundreds of years after the end of Muslim rule, Jews in Christian Spain considered
Arabic as their own language. The Jewish elite, in particular, felt strong attachment
to the Judeo-Arabic Hispanic traditions they inherited from Muslim Spain, or al-Andalus. Even after the decline of Arabic science and the advancement of Latin, Castilian, and Catalan scholarship during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, Jews continued to hold Arabic in high esteem as a language of philosophy and medicine, until their expulsion in 1492
Arabic as their own language. The Jewish elite, in particular, felt strong attachment
to the Judeo-Arabic Hispanic traditions they inherited from Muslim Spain, or al-Andalus. Even after the decline of Arabic science and the advancement of Latin, Castilian, and Catalan scholarship during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, Jews continued to hold Arabic in high esteem as a language of philosophy and medicine, until their expulsion in 1492
| Original language | American English |
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| Title of host publication | Sephardic Identities, Medieval and Early Modern |
| Publisher | University of Michigan |
| Pages | 7-9 |
| State | Published - 2019 |
Publication series
| Name | Frankel Institute Annual |
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