Islamic religious life among Moriscos was already clandestine within a decade of conversion

Evidence

Those who did not live near enough to the coast to plot such an escape had to find other means of surviving as Muslims. It is against this background that we must understand the reaction of the Muslim masses to conversion: it was to turn their religion, always hitherto thought of as essentially a faith to be lived and proclaimed in public, into a secret and underground phenomenon. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 272 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Forced conversion drove formerly public Islam underground and clandestine — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 272; Moriscos cloaked Islamic messages inside ostensibly Christian texts. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1229; Moriscos performed Islamic purification rituals both before and after receiving Catholic absolution — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 552 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Forced conversion drove formerly public Islam underground and clandestine #corroborates (0.95) — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 272