Moriscos performed Islamic purification rituals both before and after receiving Catholic absolution
Evidence
One Gabriel Cordero confessed that in 1570 he, along with other Moriscos, had gone to Valladolid to beneļ¬t from the Edict of Grace that had been proclaimed. The day before the absolution was granted, they got together with other Moriscos from Valladolid itself and performed the ceremonies of Islamic ritual puriļ¬cation (atahor, guadoc) followed by prayer (cĀøala), and then, after receiving absolution, they did the same again! ā L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 552
Categorization
- QUESTION: The performative contempt ā doing Islamic rites on both sides of a Christian absolution ā begs follow-up on how the community coordinated this openly.
- SHARE: A friend working on religious coexistence or ritual studies would immediately see the structure here.