إخراج الموريسكيين من الأندلس
إخراج الموريسكيين من الأندلس
c. 1609 CE · c. 1017 AH
Al-Maqqari records the near-contemporary expulsion of the Moriscos 'in this recent era, in the year 1017': thousands landed at Fez, Tlemcen and Tunis, robbed on the roads by Arabs — the Tunis-bound mostly prospered; those settled at Sale by the Maghreb sultan fortified its castle, built palaces and became famed for jihad at sea — the corsairs of Sale 1.
At a glance
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe · Maghreb
- Review
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In time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Refugees, migrants and diaspora
Overview
Al-Maqqari in "Nafh al-Tib" says that the Christians expelled those of the Muslims of al-Andalus who remained in "the years seventeen and a thousand" of the Hijra. These had worshipped God in secret. 1
Before the expulsion
According to al-Maqqari, the Christians pressed hard in their searches, burned many of them, and forbade them to carry even a small knife, let alone other iron. They rose in some mountains several times and found no helper. 1
Where the expellees went
Al-Maqqari says that thousands left for Fez, thousands for Tlemcen from Oran, and most of them left for Tunis. The Bedouins attacked them on the roads and plundered their property, and only a few survived in the lands of Tlemcen and Fez. Those who went to the districts of Tunis were mostly saved, and they resettled its villages; the same happened at Tatawin, Sala and Mitija in Algiers. 1
The sultan of the far Maghrib employed some of them as soldiers, and they settled in Sala. Some of them fought at sea. They fortified the citadel of Sala and built palaces and baths there. A group reached Constantinople, Egypt and Syria. 1
What is not covered here
The total numbers of those expelled and the royal decrees about the expulsion are not in the data for this page and need an additional source. So do the Spanish account of the event and the view of contemporary researchers. The event is linked in the entity data to Granada.
Date
1017 AH, with a Gregorian equivalent (around 1609 CE) that is derived; al-Maqqari's wording is "the years seventeen and a thousand". 1
Connections
- Occurred at
- Granada
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Sources
- Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari, p. 528
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “إخراج الموريسكيين من الأندلس”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/morisco-expulsion-1017/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.