De andalusíes a mudéjarescontinuidad musulmana en la Extremadura de las órdenes militares
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Universidad de Valladolid
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- Bartolomé Miranda Díaz (coord.)
- Rogelio Segovia Sopo (coord.)
Publisher: Federación Extremadura Histórica
ISBN: 978-84-608-4198-2
Year of publication: 2015
Pages: 153-175
Congress: Congreso de la Federación Extremadura Histórica (1. 2015. Garrovillas de Alconétar)
Type: Conference paper
Abstract
The conquest of an extensive area, the Southern border of al‐Andalus or Taifa Kingdom of Badajoz, by the Kingdoms of Portugal, Leon and Castile between the twelfth and thirdteenth centuries, led to a new social‐political framework for the Muslim inhabitants that went on to form minority ethnic‐religious groups in the heart of the Christian society, known from this point on as the Mudejars. The continuity of the Islamic peoples in the resultant region of Extremadura led to the creation of numerous communities known as "aljamas", which were organized and governed by their own laws and survived until the edict of obligatory baptism of 1502. This article seeks to explain the reasons which determined the emergence and organization of such "aljamas" in the territories of Military Orders of Alcántara and Santiago.