Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614

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...

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 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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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 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...

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 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...

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...