Canon law allowed rare family contact with converts to Islam

Evidence

Nobody may by word or deed abuse any Christian man or woman who before the date of the Capitulations had turned Moor. If any Moor had taken a renegade as his wife, she will not be forced to become a Christian against her will, but she may be questioned in the presence of Christians and Moors, and be allowed to follow her own will. The same is to be understood of children born of a Christian mother and a Moor. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 177 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

This is the unique example, as far as I know, of a Christian legal text specifically invoking Muslim law as a legal precedent for the treatment of non-Christians. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 990 (#complicates, via linked claim)

While the presentation of Muhammad in the Estoria de España would suggest that Islam would be a heresy, the Siete partidas, in accordance with thirteenth-century Canon law, gives the Muslims a subordinate but tolerated status equivalent to that of Jews, while denying any legal right to practice heresy. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 980 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Christian canon law rarely invoked Muslim law as a legal precedent — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 990; Thirteenth-century Christian law tolerated Islam as subordinate religion, not heresy — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 980; The 1492 surrender treaty explicitly protected Christians who converted to Islam from coercion — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 177

Related

• The 1492 surrender treaty explicitly protected Christians who converted to Islam from coercion (similarity 0.85)
• Christian canon law rarely invoked Muslim law as a legal precedent (similarity 0.84)
• Thirteenth-century Christian law tolerated Islam as subordinate religion, not heresy (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• The 1492 surrender treaty explicitly protected Christians who converted to Islam from coercion #corroborates (0.85) — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 177
• Christian canon law rarely invoked Muslim law as a legal precedent #complicates (0.80) — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 990
• Thirteenth-century Christian law tolerated Islam as subordinate religion, not heresy #exemplifies (0.78) — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 980