Dr. Dr. Haila Manteghi

Current affiliations

• Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies
  Schlaunstr. 2, 48143 Münster
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• Institute for Mission Studies
  Robert-Koch-Str. 29, Raum: Domplatz 6, Raum 128, 48149 Münster
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Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Research Focus

• Catholic Missionaries' activities in the Indo-Persian World in the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries and their cultural impact, the literatures they produced. Apologetics and Polemics and their interreligious interaction.
  This project focuses on an early Persian 17th cent. text, the Āʾīnā-yi Ḥaqq-namā (Mirror of Truth), written by the Spanish Jesuit missionary Jerome Xavier SJ (1549-1617; his orginal name has been Jerónimo de Espeleta y Goñi before becoming a Jesuit) in the Perso-Indian context at the Mughal court. The text has a Spanish version titled "Fuente de Vida" (written 1600). It is an apologetical theological/philosophical text,written in the context of the Muslim-Christian controversy in order to convince the Indian Elite of Mughal court, especially Akbar and Jahangir, to convert to Christianity. The importance of this text is mainly because when reaching the Safavid Persia, it provoked a series of reactions both from the Shi'a clerics, the Catholic missionaries in Persia and also the Propaganda Fide in Rome. This project aims to study this fascinating history of controversies produced around Jerome Xavier's work as well.

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