Moriscos

Moriscos (, ; ; "Moorish") were former Muslims and their descendants whom the Catholic Church and Habsburg Spain commanded to forcibly convert to Christianity or face compulsory exile after Spain outlawed Islam. Spain had a sizeable Muslim population, the mudéjars, in the early 16th century.

Hornachos is a municipality located in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain. According to the 2005 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 3,840 inhabitants.

Ricote is a Spanish municipality in the autonomous community of Murcia. It has a population of 1,509 (2004) and an area of 87.7 km2.

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thumb|14th century tower of the church of San Salvador in [[Teruel, Spain, an example of what is known as Mudéjar art]] Mudéjar were Muslims who remained in Iberia in the late medieval period following the Christian reconquest. It is also a term for Mudéjar art, which was greatly influenced by Islamic art, but produced typically by Christian craftsmen for Christian patrons. Mudéjar was used in contrast to both Muslims in Muslim-ruled areas (for example, Muslims of Granada before 1492) and Moriscos, who were often forcibly converted and may or may not have continued to secretly practice Islam.

thumb|Al-Fatiha with Castillian translations in Aljamiado script above each line of Arabic Quranic text. thumb|Aljamiado text by Mancebo de Arévalo. c. 16th century. thumb|Poema de Yuçuf

17th century expulsion of Moriscos from Spain

independent maritime city-state between 1627 and 1668 at the mouth of the Bu Regregue river

1568–1571 rebellion of the Moriscos of the Kingdom of Granada

Spanish revolutionary

Spanish oppressive policies against crypto-Jews and crypto-Muslims

Crypto-Islam is the secret adherence to Islam while publicly professing to be of another faith; people who practice crypto-Islam are referred to as "crypto-Muslims." The word has mainly been used in reference to Spanish Muslims and Sicilian Muslims during the Inquisition (i.e., the Moriscos and Saraceni and their usage of Aljamiado). With the Portuguese Empire's expansion to the Far East and the Spanish Empire's spread to the Philippines from Latin America, Filipino Muslims and Portuguese Muslims were also subject to the Inquisition, one famous case being Alexo de Castro of the Spanish-occupie

Moroccan Prime Minister (1908-1990)

Social and legal category in early modern Iberia

1504 Islamic legal opinion

16th-century edicts outlawing Islam in various kingdoms of Spain

Moroccan politician (1910–1970)

Moroccan Admiral and an ambassador

poem

religious texts inscribed on lead plates from Granada, Spain

Spanish crypto-Muslim author

The monfíes (, sing. monfí; trans. munfī, "exiled, outlawed") were moriscos who lived during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in the mountains around Granada.

set of Quranic excerpts copied and used by Moriscos starting in the early 16th century

1606 manuscript with a Spanish translation of the Quran

16th century Morisco commander

Moroccan diplomat (1820-1908)