In 1511 Christian authorities attacked Morisco identity via customs, not doctrine.
Evidence
In 1511 came the first determined attempt of the Christian authorities to strike in a concerted way at the stubborn Islam of the “newly converted”—by extirpating their distinctive manners and customs. Earlier enactments such as the Edicts of Conversion themselves and the various capitulations of 1501, although they were a shock to the Muslims, were, in fact, designed to attenuate the impact of conversion in various ways. Confrontation on such nondoctrinal issues as the continued wearing of existing “Moorish” garments, the use of bath houses, among other things, had been avoided. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 372
Categorization
- ADDENDUM: Directly parallels the sumptuary-control theme in ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ — dress regulation as identity/political signaling, here aimed at extirpating a culture.