Spatial and Material Remains of Castilian Muslims: Presences and Absences of a Medieval Minority (SP)

Abstract

This paper provides an overview on Castilian Muslim aljamas on the Douro basin on the basis of their material remains, namely, urban settings, buildings, and movable goods. Not aiming at being an inventory, the essay will analyse the most significant amongst them, searching in them for any ideological traces revealing the Islamic belonging of the communities behind them. These groups, we will see, managed to preserve a purely Islamic identity within a non-Islamic socio-cultural context and in a minority condition.