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…
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This thesis explores attitudes of Christians toward Islam and Muslims in Spain in the sixteenth century and intends to destabilize Islam's traditional place as adversary in Early-Modern Spanish history. My research aligns itself with and employs new trends in historiography that…
This dissertation locates and analyzes the mechanisms and forms of urban change that accompanied the forced mass migration of the Moriscos, descendants of Spanish Muslims forcibly converted to Catholicism. The Moriscos, converted between 1501 and 1526, and expelled first from Gr…
Located in Spain's southeastern corner, Granada stood as Islam's last bastion on the Iberian peninsula until conquered in 1492 by the armies of Isabella and Ferdinand. For nearly eight decades following the conquest, Granada remained a city divided between its "native" morisco c…
This dissertation examines Spanish treatment of subject Muslims (Moriscos) as a model for the assimilation and acculturation of Amerindians during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It gives particular emphasis to formal, institutional roles of the government and Church in…
In Spain, in 1501 the conversion of Muslims to Christianity was thought possible, hence the decreed baptisms; by the end of the century metanoia was deemed impossible. Similarly, religious otherness was thought to be surmountable; yet, it ultimately became indelible or racialize…
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, emigration to Spanish America was restricted legally to old Christians, individuals who could prove they had been Catholic for at least three generations. Due to Spanish authorities' preoccupations with spreading religious orthodox…
In the present study I analyze the Catecheses mystagogicae pro aduenis ex secta Mahometana: Ad Parochos, & Potestates, written by doctor of theology and citizen of Granada Pedro Guerra de Lorca in 1586. In order to respond to the various themes of the Catechisms of Instruction, …
Historically, aljamiado literature has been defined as a form of Spanish written in an Arabic script. This study is an exploration of the complex nature of aljamiado. It argues that aljamiado was the product of an apocalyptic imagination, and may thus be understood as a literatu…
At the beginning of the sixteenth century, the Muslims of the newly conquered territory of Granada rebelled against their Catholic Castilian and Aragonese masters. The Muslims of Granada were subsequently given the choice of expulsion or conversion, with many choosing to remain …
This dissertation is an overview of the death theme in the clandestine literature (Aljamiado) of the last Muslims of Spain and how their eschatological concerns mirror their fear of the death of Islam in the Iberian Peninsula. It is the first lengthy attempt at approaching this …
This thesis traces the Morisco experience and resulting Crypto-Islamic identity duringthe late medieval through early modern period in the Iberian Peninsula using language, law,popular culture, and the results of DNA research. The Crypto-Islamic Identity took rootbefore their of…
This study explores the spiritual discourse of the Moorish author known as Mancebo de Arévalo. The foundation will be the "Capítulos de vocablos oscuros,” analyzing from the "Capítulo del innas y del annas" to "El sueño que soñó al-Jadir," which are in the Breve compendio de nue…
Moriscos do not represent a unique case of a minority group in the history of the Iberian peninsula; but they are the only converted group to be sentenced to expulsion from Iberian lands between 1609 and 1614. The reasons behind their struggle are numerous, and they are based on…
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 Moriscos, that is to say, the Muslims who remained in Spain after the fall of Granada in 1492, can be said to have lived a double life. Forced to live publicly as Christians, the Moriscos attempted to follow the precepts of Islam in secret. In spite of their dismal circumsta…