Mudéjar
The word Mudéjar comes from the Arab مدجّن ( mudayyan , “practitioner”), which gave, by deterioration in Spanish, mudéjar . It is the name given to the Moslems of Spain become prone of the Christian kingdoms after the 11th century, for the period of tolerance.
Having a particular status, the mudéjars formed small islands of the Islam until, placed by the Christian authorities in front of the alternative of conversion or the exile, they had disappeared definitively from Spain.
The mudéjars spoke the Castilian; if they had forgotten their native tongue, they however continued to write the language of their ancestors. To indicate the Castilian they used the word aljamía, of Arabic “ Al' adjamiyya ” meaning “words from abroad. ”
The policy of purity of blood which was implemented as from the 15th century saw following one another persecutions against this community. February 14th, 1502 is promulgated an edict which forces the mudéjars of Castille to choose between conversion and the exile. Under the name of Morisque S, important communities new converts will be maintained in Spain before disappearing completely following the edict from expulsion from 1609.
See too
- Mozarab, with the Country of Al-Andalûs, before the end of the reconquest;
- the mudéjars converted by force become the Morisque S at the 16th century.
- Art mudéjar : a form of Art hispano-Moorish.
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