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Article: Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- June 22, 2007
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Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614. By L. P. Harvey. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 448. $40.00.)
After the reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula came to a close in 1492 with the capture of Granada, Christian Spain began to experience both the religious fervor of the Counter-Reformation and the political fear of the Ottoman Turks. The question now arose of what to do with the defeated Moorish inhabitants. The policy adopted was essentially to assimilate them, forcing them to become Christians and to abandon their separate language, dress, and customs. Its implementation proved to be a major headache for sixteenth-century Spain, involving two ...