La taqiyya en las fuentes cristianas: indicios de su presencia entre los moriscos

Abstract

It has been commonplace to employ taqiyya to explain the religious beliefs of the Moriscos and the failure of assimilation. However, in recent years, renowned scholars have questioned this interpretation using three arguments: the absence of the term in Hispanic texts; the lack of legal literature that supports it; and the Sunni beliefs of the Spanish Muslims. The aim of this brief article is to refute some of these sceptical thoughts. For this, I mention several Christian sources of the period that, without using this particular term, suggest that the Moriscos knew about and embraced this doctrine.