mudejar

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Definition of mudejar in English English dictionary

(from Arabic mudajjan: "permitted to remain") Any member of a group of Muslims who remained in Spain after the Christian reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula (11th-15th century). In return for payment of a tax, the Mudejars were a protected minority, allowed to keep their religion, language, and customs. They formed separate communities in larger towns, where they were subject to their own Muslim laws. By the 13th century they had begun to use Spanish, which they wrote in Arabic characters. After 1492 they were forced to leave Spain or convert to Christianity, and by the early 17th century more than three million Spanish Muslims had been expelled

{i} Muslims who remained in Spain after the country was overtaken again by Christian (11th-15th century)

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Of or pertaining to the style of Iberian architecture and decoration of the 12th to 16th centuries

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Of or pertaining to the Moors of Al-Andalus who remained in Christian territory after the Reconquista but were not converted to Christianity

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a style of Iberian architecture and decoration of the 12th to 16th centuries

Etymology

[ mü-'[th]e-"hä ] (noun.) 1893. From Spanish mudéjar from Arabic مدجن (mudájjan, “domesticated”), from the verb دجّن (dájjana, “to tame”), from دجن (dájana, “to become accustomed”).