Popular superstition in Spanish Islam never constituted organized heresy

Evidence

There certainly are features of Islam as a popular religion as it existed in the sixteenth century in Spain that might be described as “unorthodox,” but such aberrant manifestations arising from superstition, from contamination by ancient folklore, or by Christian (and in some cases Judaic) beliefs and practices did not betoken adherence to any organized “heresy,” nor are they evidence for the existence in Spain of any of the non-Sunni Islamic belief systems that flourished elsewhere in the Islamic world. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 310

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader literature on popular religion vs. official orthodoxy in early modern Europe.