Aftermath
in Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614
May 2005; p ublished online March 2013 .
Chapter. Subjects: Early Modern History (1500 to 1700). 7267 words.
This chapter focuses on the Muslim diaspora from Spain. It aims only to sketch in some indication of the sort of things that happened to some of the exiled Moriscos. Interesting details are...
Assimilation or Rejection? The 1570s and 1580s
in Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614
May 2005; p ublished online March 2013 .
Chapter. Subjects: Early Modern History (1500 to 1700). 12293 words.
The policy of scattering the Granadan Moriscos had two distinct objectives that were not necessarily incompatible, although neither had been thought through properly. The objectives were...
The Beginnings of Crypto-Islam in the Iberian Peninsula
in Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614
May 2005; p ublished online March 2013 .
Chapter. Subjects: Early Modern History (1500 to 1700). 20827 words.
The first Muslims arrived in the Iberian Peninsula in 711; the mass expulsion of all Muslims was decreed and carried out in the period 1609–14, nine centuries later. In this great final...
Crisis and War: Granada, 1567–1571
in Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614
May 2005; p ublished online March 2013 .
Chapter. Subjects: Early Modern History (1500 to 1700). 15918 words.
In the closing period of the history of the Muslims of al-Andalus, there were three key crises, three times of suffering and bloodshed that stood out among the many others. The first was...
Crypto-Muslims in the Lands of the Crowns of Castile and Aragon, 1525–1560
in Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614
May 2005; p ublished online March 2013 .
Chapter. Subjects: Early Modern History (1500 to 1700). 9218 words.
The earliest example of the Inquisition concerning itself directly with the converts from Islam in Old Castile can be seen in an Inquisitorial inspection of 1523 that took place in Segovia....
Expulsion
in Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614
May 2005; p ublished online March 2013 .
Chapter. Subjects: Early Modern History (1500 to 1700). 19008 words.
The theme of the original “destruction of Spain,” as brought about by the Muslim invasion (an invasion allegedly facilitated by the treason of one Count Julian who, in pursuit of a feud of...
Hornachos: a Special Case
in Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614
May 2005; p ublished online March 2013 .
Chapter. Subjects: Early Modern History (1500 to 1700). 4233 words.
In the final stages of the existence of Islam in the Iberian Peninsula, Hornachos played a role disproportionate to its size. Its special, exceptional status is evident from the way it is...
The Intellectual Life of Spain's Clandestine Muslims
in Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614
May 2005; p ublished online March 2013 .
Chapter. Subjects: Early Modern History (1500 to 1700). 38038 words.
Many of the extant files of the proceedings of Inquisition trials contain references to books and other written material impounded as evidence when the accused were taken into custody. In...
International Relations
in Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614
May 2005; p ublished online March 2013 .
Chapter. Subjects: Early Modern History (1500 to 1700). 10086 words.
International relations should be what the words say: the study of relations between nations. By this definition Spain's Muslims could have no “international” relations during the period...
The Last Books Written in Arabic in al-Andalus and the Question of Assimilation
in Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614
May 2005; p ublished online March 2013 .
Chapter. Subjects: Early Modern History (1500 to 1700). 12856 words.
Briefly, in the final decade of the sixteenth century, there were perpetrated in Granada a series of forgeries in the course of which ostensibly Christian sacred books from the first...
The Muslims of Aragon and Valencia up to Their Forcible Conversion
in Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614
May 2005; p ublished online March 2013 .
Chapter. Subjects: Early Modern History (1500 to 1700). 11003 words.
The expression “Crown of Aragon” (Corona de Arag´on) may give rise to justifiable confusion. In Spanish historical usage, it refers not just to Aragon proper but to all three contiguous...
Spain's Muslims under a New Order
in Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614
May 2005; p ublished online March 2013 .
Chapter. Subjects: Early Modern History (1500 to 1700). 15997 words.
Once they had defeated those Muslims of the Kingdom of Granada who had risen in open rebellion in 1501 and 1502, the forces of the Spanish Crown offered to accept the rebels' surrender, but...