Arabic literacy forced Moriscos to choose between revealing knowledge and risking death

Evidence

I read and translated for him some words which he was unable to read. Then he met me another day and told me: “The archbishop has ordered me to bring you with me to his presence.” I said to myself, “How shall I save myself, as the Christians kill and burn everyone on whom they find an Arabic book or of whom they know that he reads Arabic?” — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1281