El mito fallido sacromontano y su perdurabilidad local a la luz del mozarabismo maurófobo de F. J. Simonet

Abstract

Francisco Javier Simonet, Professor of Arabic at the University of Granada modified his perceptions of the role of Islam in Spanish culture after moving to the Andalusian city and realising the need to match his arguments to the city's foundation myth by granting crucial importance to the Mozarabs. Simonet brushed constantly, by elision and mention, against the problem of the Sacromonte Lead Books without dealing with it directly, tiiying to maintain his Christian providentialism untouched, for which he claimed a basis in historical and documental truth, and at the same time release his Arabophobia. The Sacromonte is omnipresent in Simonet's work and he contributed to its survival as a myth.