Resettling Granadan Moriscos into Morisco enclaves actively prevented assimilation
Evidence
Some of the groups endured long marches from Granada across testing terrain with, as we have seen, many dying on the way. Other journeys were less stressful, and those who were sent westward into Extremadura, above all to Hornachos, found themselves living in an Arabic-speaking concentration, an autonomous enclave almost, where the process of assimilation, far from being accelerated, seems to have gone into reverse (see chapter 12). β L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1114 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Spain undertook certain measures to put a stop to this, among others there was the decision of Queen Juana, daughter of the Catholic Monarchs, who commanded that they should abandon their Moorish dress, because she could see how effective this would be in making them forget that they were Moors. She gave them six years to wear out the clothes they already had made, and then another ten years went in dissimulation, but ο¬nally in 1518 the Emperor Charles when he came to reign in Castile, commanded that the ban should be applied, although that same year at the supplication of the Moriscos he suspended it during his good pleasure. β L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 294 (
#complicates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Deported Granadan Moriscos openly disregarded Christianizing decrees and prospered; Scattered resettlement failed to assimilate the Granadan exiles; Forcing the Moriscos to abandon Moorish dress was a deliberate assimilation strategy β L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 294 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Relocation could strengthen rather than weaken Morisco collective identity
#corroborates(0.92) β L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1114 - Forcing the Moriscos to abandon Moorish dress was a deliberate assimilation strategy
#complicates(0.72) β L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 294 - Inquisitorial terror fragmented Morisco communities into mutual distrust
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