Minorías islámicas en el Mediterráneo: ¿hacia la inclusión en la historia general de la Edad Media?

Abstract

This paper reviews the latest books focused on Muslims living under Christian rule in the lands which were to become part of the Crown of Aragon in the thirteenth century. Sicilian and Italian Muslims, as well as Aragon’s Mudejars, show a number of parallelisms. First, concerning their sources and secondly, in the negotiation of their spaces with regard to the Christian groups, by means of the royal dynasties who ruled in the area. The vicissitudes of chancery records, as well as particular cases justify different approaches by contemporary historiography. A greater effort in comparative studies between the Islamic minorities of Mediterranean Europe would be necessary. These groups should have their economic and social importance in the Mediterranean framework acknowledged, so that they can find their place in general books of European Medieval History, the same as the Jewish minority.