Living as Muslims under Christian rule. The Mudejars

• Autor(es): Barros, Filomena
• Data: 2020
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/28147
• Origem: Repositório Científico da Universidade de Évora
• Assunto(s): Muslims, Mudejars, Iberia
• Tipo de Documento: Capitulo
• Idioma: Inglês

Descrição

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.