📚 noun • entry_id 50085
Mudéjar
Meanings (ES + gloss)
mudéjar
Any of the Moors of Al-Andalus who remained in Christian territory after the Reconquista but were not converted to Christianity.
In this way, the mudéjars of Valencia came to represent a solid Muslim enclave within Christian Iberia.
They came to be known as the Mudéjares- the corruption of Mudegelin, an opprobrious term bestowed upon them by the Moors, derived from the word Degel which we are told was equivale…
mudéjar
A style of Iberian architecture and decoration of the 12th to 16th centuries.
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