Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-441) and index.

The beginnings of Crypto-Islam in the Iberian Peninsula -- Spain's Muslims under a new order -- The Muslims of Aragon and Valencia up to their forcible conversion -- Crypto-Muslims in the lands of the crowns of Castile and Aragon, 1525-60 -- The intellectual life of Spain's clandestine Muslims -- Crisis and war : Granada, 1567-71 -- Assimilation or rejection? : the 1570s and 1580s -- The last books written in Arabic in al-Andalus and the question of assimilation -- Expulsion -- International relations -- Aftermath -- Hornachos : a special case.

On December 18, 1499, the Muslims in Granada revolted against the Christian city government's attempts to suppress their rights to live and worship as followers of Islam. Although the Granada riot was a local phenomenon that was soon contained, subsequent widespread rebellion provided the Christian government with an excuse?or justification, as its leaders saw things?to embark on the systematic elimination of the Islamic presence from Spain, as well as from the Iberian Peninsula as a whole, over the next hundred years. Picking up at the end of his earlier classic study, Islamic Spain, 1250 to.