Muslims In Spain, 1500 To 1614

by Harvey, L. P.

• ISBN13: 9780226319636
• ISBN10: 0226319636
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-05-16
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

On December 18, 1499, the Muslims in Granada revolted against the Christian city government's attempts to suppress their rights to live and worship as followers of Islam. Although the Granada riot was a local phenomenon that was soon contained, subsequent widespread rebellion provided the Christian government with an excuseor justification, as its leaders saw thingsto embark on the systematic elimination of the Islamic presence from Spain, as well as from the Iberian Peninsula as a whole, over the next hundred years. Picking up at the end of his earlier classic study, Islamic Spain, 1250 to 1500 which described the courageous efforts of the followers of Islam to preserve their secular, as well as sacred, culture in late medieval SpainL. P. Harvey chronicles here the struggles of the Moriscos. These forced converts to Christianity lived clandestinely in the sixteenth century as Muslims, communicating in aljamiado Spanish written in Arabic characters. More broadly, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, tells the story of an early modern nation struggling to deal with diversity and multiculturalism while torn by the fanaticism of the Counter-Reformation on one side and the threat of Ottoman expansion on the other. Harvey recounts how a century of tolerance degenerated into a vicious cycle of repression and rebellion until the final expulsion in 1614 of all Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula. Retold in all its complexity and poignancy, this tale of religious intolerance, political maneuvering, and ethnic cleansing resonates with many modern concerns. Eagerly awaited by Islamist and Hispanist scholars since Harvey's first volume appeared in 1990, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, will be compulsory reading for student and specialist alike.

Author Biography

L. P. Harvey is professor emeritus of Spanish at the University of London and a fellow of King’s College, London. He is currently a research associate at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. Harvey’s previous book, Islamic Spain, 1250 to 1500, is also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	xi
List of Abbreviations	xiii
1 The Beginnings of Crypto-Islam in the Iberian Peninsula	1	(44)
2 Spain's Muslims under a New Order	45	(34)
3 The Muslims of Aragon and Valencia up to Their Forcible Conversion	79	(23)
4 Crypto-Muslims in the Lands of the Crowns of Castile and Aragon, 1525-1560	102	(20)
5 The Intellectual Life of Spain's Clandestine Muslims	122	(82)
6 Crisis and War: Granada, 1567-1571	204	(34)
7 Assimilation or Rejection? The 1570's and 1580's	238	(26)
8 The Last Books Written in Arabic in al-Andalus and the Question of Assimilation	264	(27)
9 Expulsion	291	(41)
10 International Relations	332	(21)
11 Aftermath	353	(16)
12 Hornachos: A Special Case	369	(10)
Appendices
I Religious Freedom and the Modern Spanish Constitution	379	(1)
II "Morisco" and "Mudejar" in Glosses by Alonso del Castillo	380	(2)
III The Sacromonte Texts	382	(17)
IV Gongora on the Sacromonte	399	(2)
V Some Specimen Official Texts Relating to the Expulsion of the Moriscos	401	(10)
VI The Moriscos of the Canaries and the Guanches	411	(2)
VII The Literature of Self-Justification after the Expulsion: A Specimen	413	(4)
VIII Popular Reactions to the Expulsion	417	(4)
Bibliography	421	(22)
Index	443