Aragon’s 1526 conversion decree made Islamic worship illegal retroactively

Evidence

The Christian Aragonese envoys received no satisfactory answer to their representations apart from a brief stay of execution. A further proclamation dated December 22 reinforced the conversion by banning all travel out of the kingdom by the new converts and ordering absentees back to their homes. From this point onward, Islamic public worship was illegal in Aragonese lands. Representations on behalf of the new converts achieved very little. The Aragonese envoys were instructed to point out that these particular Mudejars had never set out to convert anybody (a nadie an pervertido), they caused no trouble (no son escandalosos), and were not in touch with the Muslims in North Africa. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 489

Categorization

• XREF: The envoys’ plea that Mudejars ‘never tried to convert anyone’ parallels the recurring fear in Christian Spain that Muslims might proselytize — earlier chapters covered similar justifications.
• QUESTION: The argument ‘they never tried to convert anybody’ implies conversion pressure was the Crown’s actual concern — worth checking whether any Mudejar proselytizing was ever documented or whether this was pure royal pretense.