Castilian law punished Muslim men but not Christian men for interfaith sex

Evidence

Sexual contamination is also a preoccupation of the Siete partidas. The Muslim or Jew who sleeps with a Christian virgin or widow must be stoned while his partner loses half her possessions; if she is married, both are to be put to death; if she is a prostitute, they are flogged together through the city. In all cases, the punishments for recidivists are more severe. But there is no explicit prohibition of sexual relations between a Christian man and a Muslim or Jewish woman; this seems to be tacitly tolerated. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 985

Categorization

• XREF: Reverses-echoes the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ strand and the gendered protectionist logic in existing vault material.
• DEEPTHINKING: The asymmetry — Christian men unpunished, Muslim/Jewish men stoned for the same act with a Christian woman — encodes a gendered sovereignty logic (protecting ‘our’ women as national territory), an exact structural ancestor of modern tropes about Muslim male predation that Anidjar/Razack trace.
• SEED: Essay angle: how the asymmetry in who is prosecutable for interfaith sex (protecting ‘our’ women while tolerating ‘our’ men) transferred from medieval miscegenation law into modern anti-Muslim narratives.