Spanish Islam
The historic Muslim presence and practice in the Iberian Peninsula (al-Andalus) during the medieval period and its forced underground continuation among the Moriscos after the Reconquista and conversions. The term refers both to the established Islamic civilization of Spain and its secretive, clandestine form after forced conversion drove practitioners underground, where it diverged from mainstream orthodox Islam.
Claims that use this term
- A failed revolt by Granada Muslims in 1499 triggered the elimination of Spanish Islam
- Forced conversion drove Spanish Islam underground where contemporaries soon lost track of it.
- Forced underground, Spanish Islam diverged from orthodox Islam through the distortions of clandestinity.
- Clandestine Morisco writings forged continuity from Spanish Islam into North African exile
- Popular superstition in Spanish Islam never constituted organized heresy