CONTENTSINTRODUCTIONCHAPTER 1 THE ALJAMIADO PHENOMENON IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE: DEFINITIONS, AREA, LANGUAGEThe Aljamiado Phenomenon in Early Modern Europe: Comparative SummaryCHAPTER 2 STATE OF RESEARCH2.1 The State of Research on Mudéjares and Moriscos Manuscript Heritage: Past and Present2.2 Development and research directions in Bosnian Aljamiado literature2.3 Studying the Manuscript Heritage of the Tatars of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: State of Research2.4 State of Research: Comparative SummaryCHAPTER 3 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND – CONDITIONS, GENESIS3.1 Communicative Needs and the Emergence of a New Written Variant of Spanish3.2 The Balkans in the Ottoman Era3.3 Tatar Settlement in Slavic Lands3.4 Historical Background: Comparative SummaryCHAPTER 4 GEOGRAPHY AND CHRONOLOGY4.1 Aljamiado Literature in the Iberian Peninsula: Origins and Chronology4.2 The Origins and Chronology of Aljamiado in Bosnia and Herzegovina4.3 The Tatars of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth: Geography, Religious Life,and a Chronology of Their Aljamiado Texts4.4 Geography and Chronology: Comparative SummaryCHAPTER 5 AUTHORS AND COPYISTS IN ALJAMIADO LITERATURE5.1 Mudéjares and Moriscos Authors and Copyists5.2 Authors and Copyists in the Literary Culture of Bosnian Aljamiado5.3 Tatar Authors and Copyists: Education, Social Status, and Competence in Oriental and Slavic Languages5.4 Authors and Copyists in Aljamiado Literature: Comparative SummaryCHAPTER 6 THE ALPHABET AND THE LANGUAGE6.1 Adaptation of Arabic Script to Iberian Languages6.2 Adaptation of Arabic Script to Bosnian6.3 Languages and Script in Tatar Aljamiado Literature6.4 The Alphabet and the Language: Comparative SummaryCHAPTER 7 TRANSCRIPTION AND TRANSLITERATION7.1 Transliteration of Mudéjares and Moriscos Aljamiado Manuscripts7.2 Transliteration and Transcription of Bosnian Aljamiado7.3 Towards a Unified Transliteration and Transcription for Tatar Arabic-script Texts7.4 Transcription and Transliteration: Comparative SummaryCHAPTER 8 TEXT TYPES AND TOPICS OF ALJAMIADO LITERATURE8.1 Texts and Topics of Mudéjar and Morisco Literature8.2 Types of Texts and Themes in Bosnian Aljamiado8.3 Text Types and Topics in the Manuscripts of the Tatars of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania8.4 Text Types and Topics of Aljamiado Literature: Comparative SummaryCONCLUSION: ALJAMIADO IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE: TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED HISTORYREFERENCESIndex of proper names (place names and personal names)Index of Manuscripts and Notable PrintsThis book shows how Muslim communities across early modern Europe transmitted, translated, adapted, and localized Islamic knowledge in vernacular languages written in Arabic script.This book offers the first systematic comparative study of Aljamiado as a genuinely European phenomenon. Moving beyond regional approaches, it brings together three major Islamic manuscript traditions: the writings of the Mudéjars and Moriscos of the Iberian Peninsula, the Bosnian corpus, and the textual culture of the Tatars of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. By proposing ‘European Aljamiado’ as a new analytical framework, the authors show how Muslim communities across early modern Europe transmitted, translated, adapted, and localized Islamic knowledge in vernacular languages written in Arabic script. Attentive to political, linguistic, confessional, and cultural diversity, the book reveals both a shared Islamic foundation and distinctive local forms of textual creativity. Combining philology, codicology, linguistics, literary history, and manuscript studies, it makes a major contribution to Aljamiado studies and opens new perspectives on religion, translation, and Europe’s multilingual manuscript cultures.