Konvivencija u islamskoj Španiji
Convivence in Islamic Spain

Summary/Abstract: Theories of tolerance and interreligious cohabitation of the three monotheistic religions in Muslim Spain are always depicting this period as the highest example of such cohabitation and as an inception of what we now know as human rights. The short analysis of historical framework in which, to use the Arabic name – Al-Andalus came to exist and endured will more easily help us understand the circumstances in which this cohabitation developed, degree of tolerance that it incorporated and if we can at all talk about the human rights. The paper’s tendency is to give a picture of influence of Muslim government in the newly acquired territories, their relation with Muslims of non Arabic descends and their relation with the non Muslim subjects as well as their incorporation in the new society. Decline of Islamic power on the Iberian Peninsula give us the opportunity to compare the same relationship between new Christian rulers and Muslim and Jewish population in the process of the Reconquista. Special attention should be paid to the two new social subgroups that originated in these processes, the Mozarabs and the Mudejar that became symbols to this era in Spain.

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