Publication: La Reconquista islámica: el orientalismo de Miguel Asín Palacios y la participación de marroquíes en la Guerra Civil española
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2020-10-31
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Universitat Oberta de Catalunya - Fundació Carles Pi i Sunyer d'Estudis Autonómics i Locals
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El artículo examina el discurso franquista en torno a la presencia de marroquíes musulmanes en el Ejército nacional durante la Guerra Civil española, analizando cómo la justifica el arabista Miguel Asín Palacios (1871–1944). Además, vincula dicha justificación, hecha durante la posguerra, con la trayectoria académica anterior a la guerra de Asín Palacios. Sostiene, finalmente, que la argumentación de Asín Palacios sobre las motivaciones de las tropas marroquíes para luchar en España es inseparable de la interpretación histórica que el propio arabista aragonés había desarrollado durante varias décadas, en relación con el estudio de los préstamos culturales entre el mundo islámico y el mundo cristiano durante la edad media. La particular visión de Asín Palacios sobre la existencia de afinidades teológicas profundas entre el islam y el catolicismo permitió a la propaganda franquista justificar la presencia de tropas musulmanes en la guerra en función de una idea de cruzada religiosa supuestamente compartida por ambas confesiones, en lucha contra el materialismo ateo de las fuerzas republicanas.
This paper analyzes the Francoist discourse regarding the presence of Muslim Moroccan troops in the Nationalist Army during the Spanish Civil War, attending to how it was justified by Arabist scholar Miguel Asín Palacios (1871–1944). It also posits that Asín Palacios’ postwar justification was conceived against the backdrop of his earlier academic works, and argues that the rationale behind his thesis connected with his peculiar interpretation of the history of cultural transferences between the Muslim and the Christian worlds during the Iberian Middle Ages. Asín Palacios’ particular understanding of the theological affinities between Islam and Catholicism helped Francoist propaganda in portraying the participation of Muslim troops in the Spanish Civil War as stemming from a joint religious crusade against the materialist, godless forces of the Spanish Republic.
This paper analyzes the Francoist discourse regarding the presence of Muslim Moroccan troops in the Nationalist Army during the Spanish Civil War, attending to how it was justified by Arabist scholar Miguel Asín Palacios (1871–1944). It also posits that Asín Palacios’ postwar justification was conceived against the backdrop of his earlier academic works, and argues that the rationale behind his thesis connected with his peculiar interpretation of the history of cultural transferences between the Muslim and the Christian worlds during the Iberian Middle Ages. Asín Palacios’ particular understanding of the theological affinities between Islam and Catholicism helped Francoist propaganda in portraying the participation of Muslim troops in the Spanish Civil War as stemming from a joint religious crusade against the materialist, godless forces of the Spanish Republic.