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Despite the vast research on Moriscos, Spanish Muslims who were forced to convert to Catholicism beginning in the 16th century, little is known about their writings that emerged in underground Muslim societies in spite of the Spanish Inquisition's scrutiny and burning sites. The…

The population of Iberian Muslims who had been converted to Christianity, Moriscos, was marked by its diversity. While most Moriscos worked as tradesmen, making silk or working fields of fruits for example, many Morisco merchants and land-owners populated the higher echelons of …

The object of study in this dissertation is the story of Muhammad's night journey and ascension to heaven, commonly known as the mi` raj , as it circulated in Aljamiado (Spanish in Arabic script) amongst the Moriscos of sixteenth-century Spain. The origins and development of the…

The present study argues that the Iberian weave of Andalusi convivencia, which for centuries was characterized by a multicultural cohabitation (hardly harmonious and peaceful, and yet focusing on the border as a line of contiguity and not exclusion), continued to be imbedded in …