Mozarabs

The foundation of the town is attributed to a group of Mozarabs in the 12th century.

It is made of 1,300 families whose genealogies can be traced back to the ancient Mozarabs.

Vives concludes that the Mozarabs were primarily a self-absorbed group.

They did not call themselves "Mozarabs" either.

In the Middle Ages the village was inhabited by Mozarabs.

The Mozarabs also adopted this style of arch into their architecture and illuminated manuscripts.

However, the offensive failed because the Mozarabs of the city refused to cooperate with the Catholic emperor.

Conversion to Islam opened new social horizons to Mozarabs.

He specified that it applied only to the Castilians, Mozarabs, and Franks of the city.

There is evidence of a limited cultural borrowing from the Mozarabs by the Muslim community in Al-Andalus.

Mozarabs, Christians under Islamic rule.

The Mozarabs comprised the lower strata of society, heavily taxed with few civil rights, and were culturally influenced by the Muslims.

Mozarabic Rite, the Christian liturgy preserved by the Mozarabs.

Like the local Mozarabs, the Muslims of Al-Andalus were notoriously heavy drinkers.

However, the historian Jaume Vicens Vives offers another view of the Mozarabs.

Due to the northward migration of Mozarabs, Arabic placenames occur in areas where Islamic rule did not last long.

John, who contacted local Mozarabs, met Bishop Recemundus, who was acquainted with Islamic learning.

The Christians who lived in Moorish territory, the Mozarabs, created their own architectural and illumination style, Mozarabic art.

Sometime after 713 the Moors established a fortification on this mountain, while a Christian community of Mozarabs lived in the Moncharro neighbourhood.

Mozarabs themselves never called their own language "Mozarabic" but instead by a word that meant "Latin" (i.e. Romance language).

The Mozarabs were Iberian Christians who lived under Islamic rule in Al-Andalus.

The "Mozarabs" is a scholarly term for the Christians living under Muslim rulers in Al-Andalus.

Most Christians who remained adopted Arabic culture, and these Arabized Christians became known as Mozarabs.

To this end, he led a revolt of the Mozarabs at Córdoba in which Christians martyred themselves to protest against Muslim rule.

The northward migration of Mozarabs explains the presence of Arabic toponyms in places where the Muslim presence did not last long.