Mudéjares

المدجنون

The Mudéjares were the Muslims of al-Andalus who remained under Christian rule after the fall of its cities; al-Maqqari's Nafh al-Tib mentions the renegades and the Mudéjares in the late-Andalus contexts 1.

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At a glance

Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires
Region
al-Andalus & Europe
Identifiers
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Review
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Muslim minorities under non-Muslim ruleIslam and Christianity

Overview

The Mudéjares were the Muslims of al-Andalus who stayed under Christian rule after the fall of the peninsula's Muslim cities in the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries 1.

In the sources

Al-Maqqari's Nafh al-Tib mentions the renegades and the Mudéjares in its reports of the final years of al-Andalus and the fall of its cities 1.

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Sources

  1. Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari
Cite this page

islam.museum contributors. “Mudéjares”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/group/mudajjan/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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