Aragon’s coronation oaths guaranteed Muslims protected Mudejar rights until the mid-1500s

Evidence

The wild rejoicing at the birth of such a promising heir, Miguel and the grief for the death of first mother and then child were thus acted out against the backdrop of the Aragonese city of Saragossa, where, protected by the Crown for another quarter century from all persecution, there lived a sizeable and prosperous community of free Muslims who continued to enjoy all the Mudejar rights guaranteed to them explicitly by the coronation oaths sworn by all the kings of Aragon! — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 133

Categorization

• DEFINE: Illustrates what Mudejar status actually meant — legally guaranteed Muslim rights under Christian rule, in sharp contrast to Castile.
• XREF: Echoes ‘Things Fall Apart’ and the theme of legal promises between colonizer and colonized that come unraveled when politics shifts.