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Moriscos were former Muslims and their descendants whom the Catholic Church and Habsburg Spain commanded to forcibly convert to Christianity or face compulsory exile after Spain outlawed Islam. Spain
The Moorish Proselytes of Archbishop Ximenes, Granada, 1500 by Edwin Long, 1873
Muhammad I of Granada leading his troops during the Mudéjar revolt of 1264–66, illustrated in the contemporary Cantigas de Santa Maria
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Embarkation of Moriscos in Valencia by Pere Oromig [es]
Expulsion of the Moriscos from Vinaros
Aben Humeya
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Muhammad ibn Umayyah better known by the hispanicized version of his name, Aben Humeya, was a Morisco leader proclaimed King of the Moriscos by the insurgents in 1568, he organized guerrilla resistanc
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…treatment for Moriscos similar to that offered to Sephardic Jews. The bid was welcomed by Mansur Escudero, the chairman of the Islamic Council of Spain. Aben Humeya, born with the Christian name Fernando de Córdoba y Válor, leader of the Morisco revolt. Faraj ibn Faraj, a Muslim commander during the Rebellion of…
Statue of Aben Humeya (Ibn Umayya), Berja, Spain
Depiction of Fernando de Válor (Aben Humeya) as Christian
The acclamation of Aben Humeya as king of the Moriscos
The Hernandos and Valor family tree