Abstrakt
The representations of Muslims in medieval Castile have generally been interpreted under a pejorative connotation, in which Christians identified the other as inferior or as negative (bad, sinful, etc.). However, in this particular case, the 13th-century sources show that, although in smaller numbers, there were also positive representations of the Muslims who inhabited the Iberian Peninsula.
This article focuses its attention on these representations, why they were created, at what times or on what a positive representation could be used and, above all, how these representations were articulated in the representational structure of the other in general. This last point tries to intervene in the theoretical discussions about otherness and, more specifically, in the question that asks if when the other manifests him/herself to the self, he/she could or could not lose his/her condition of alterity.