The Partidas granted Muslims rights mirroring the Islamic dhimmi pact
Evidence
Muslims have a right to live and practice their religion, but this freedom of religion is constrained much as that of the dhimmi in Muslim lands, allied to an inferior social status. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 979
Categorization
- QUESTION: The claim that Christian Castile consciously modeled Muslim-jew status on Islamic dhimma invites checking whether medieval chroniclers explicitly invoked the parallel or Tolan is drawing it analytically.