Alfonso X legislated Muslims into a legally subordinated but convertible class in Castile

Evidence

The Moors [Moros] are a people who believe that Muhammad was the Prophet and Messenger of God, and for the reason that the works which he performed do not indicate the extraordinary sanctity which belongs to such a sacred calling his religion is, as it were, an insult to God. Wherefore, since in the preceding Title we treated of the Jews and of the obstinacy which they display toward the true faith, we intend to speak here of the Moors, and of their foolish belief by which they think they will be saved. We shall show why they have this name; how many kinds of them there are; how they should live among Christians, and what things they are forbidden to do while they live there; how Christians should convert them to the Faith by kind words, and not by violence or compulsion; and what punishment those deserve who prevent them from becoming Christians, or dishonor them by word or deed after they have been converted, and also to what penalty a Christian who becomes a Moor is liable. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 903

Categorization

• DEFINE: Lays out the full legal-administrative framework Alfonso X’s Siete Partidas applied to Muslim subjects — an enumeration of what the law actually regulated.