Sixteenth-century Morisco polemics recycled seventh-century Arabian debates with no contemporary referent.

Evidence

Most of what circulated in the sixteenth century was, in the last analysis, a prolongation of disputations of the seventh century in Arabia and did not mirror any contemporary reality in sixteenthand seventeenth-century Spain. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 746

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: does any surviving aljamiado text show signs of having been updated or re-aimed at contemporary Spanish rivals, or were they purely antiquarian reproductions?