Forced Morisco schooling taught Spanish literacy and not Arabic.

Evidence

There is no explicit statement to that effect, but I take it for granted that it was literacy in Spanish these schoolmasters were to impart and not in Arabic. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 285

Categorization

  • QUESTION: Harvey takes Spanish-only literacy for granted — worth checking whether any Arabic literacy was ever contemplated for New Converts.