Mozarabs in Medieval and Early Modern Spain

✍ Scribed by Richard Hitchcock

• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 172
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Relations between Christians and Muslims and vice versa are the focus of significant contemporary interest, both in the political arena and the community at large. In the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages, Christianity and Islam co-existed side by side throughout many centuries as the official religions of Muslim al-Andalus on the one hand, and the Christian kingdoms in the north of the peninsula on the other.Following the publication of a series of articles, this is his first full-length treatment of the subject to examine what being a non-Muslim meant in al-Andalus, both in the higher echelons of society and at a humbler level. Mozarabism in Leon and Toledo are considered at length, with chapters exploring the issues that arose when Mozarabs were relocated in twelfth-century Aragon, and in sixteenth-century Toledo - a pivotal point in their efforts to retain their identity.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Introduction: The Terminological Question......Page 10
1 Meaning and Origins......Page 22
2 Muslims and Christians in al-Andalus in the Early Eighth Century......Page 28
3 The Case of Córdoba in the Ninth Century......Page 46
4 Christians in Córdoba......Page 62
5 Mozarabism in León I: Arabic Nomenclature......Page 74
6 Mozarabism in León II: Mozarabs......Page 90
7 Mozarabs in Toledo......Page 96
8 Mozarabs in Aragón......Page 120
9 Mozarabs after 1492......Page 130
Postscript......Page 150
Bibliography......Page 152
C......Page 168
J......Page 169
N......Page 170
U......Page 171
Z......Page 172