Converts from Islam faced death by Islamic law if expelled to Muslim lands.

Evidence

The authorities saw that there was one category that would have suffered a great deal if they had been sent to Muslim lands, and that was the very small number of individuals who had in the recent past entered Spain as converts from Islam to Christianity. (In the Mediterranean world of piracy and corsairs, such cases were not unknown.) These people would themselves have realized that in Islamic terms they would be classified as murtadd (perhaps “renegade”), and for them under Islamic law the hadd penalty was death. … The proclamation issued at Aranda in July 1610, for example, made provision for these cases and explicitly exempted “Moors from Barbary” who had come to be converted (see appendix 5). — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1521

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘murtadd’ (renegade) and the hadd penalty of death under Islamic law for apostasy — the fatal stakes of expelling fresh converts to Muslim territories.
• XREF: Cross-religious apostasy law here parallels the logic seen in the author’s past writings on sacrifice and religious law as stabilizing mechanisms.