Living as Muslims under Christian rule. The Mudejars

• Author(s): Barros, Filomena
• Date: 2020
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/28147
• Origin: Repositório Científico da Universidade de Évora
• Subject(s): Muslims, Mudejars, Iberia
• Document Type: Book part
• Language: English

Description

The analysis of Muslim minorities in the Iberian Peninsula highlights their shifting identities throughout time and spaces. The integration in different kingdoms, and under distinctive landlords, implied a social engineering in their status and prerogatives. The intended and progressive homogenization of the Muslim due to the Iberian monarchies lied mainly on the discourse of a respublica christiana intended to separate the Christian community from the Other. This gradual process, that included continuous political negotiations between both groups, conveyed different degrees of acculturation. Muslim minorities developed a dynamic dialectic between the Islamic umma and the specific contexts of their daily life.