الملخص الإنجليزي
This study aims to examine the issue of the Moriscos by analyzing the work of
Ahmed ibn Qasim Al-Hajari “Nasir al-Din ‘ala al-Qawm al-Kafirin” (d. after 1641
AD). The analysis focuses on the year 1556 AD, which is the year that the researcher
identified as the beginning of Philip II’s accession(1556-1598) to the throne, and his
legislation of unjust laws to obliterate the Arabic and Islamic identity of Moriscos until
the year 1609 AD in which the King Philip III(1598-1609) decided to expelled the
Moriscos of Andalusia forever, The dimensions of this issue were analyzed in this book.
In this study, the researcher drew on the historical method based on description,
analysis, and extrapolation for the purpose of establishing the historical context of the
events that were associated with the Moriscos issue in this book. The comparative
approach was also used due to the historical data provided by some primary sources,
including translated Arabic and Spanish alike.
This study is divided into an introduction, three chapters, and a conclusion. The
first chapter covered a description of Ahmed bin Qasim Al-Hajari and his book, “Nasser
al-Din Ala al-Qawm al-Kafirin” The second chapter highlighted the conditions of the
Moriscos during the reign of kings Philip II and Philip III (1556-1609 AD), and the last
chapter discussed the Moriscos immigration by addressing their migrations towards the
countries of the Islamic and European.
The study concludes with a number of findings but the most significant are as
follows: The trip revealed the main contents of the intellectual, cultural, and religious
interactions between the Moriscos and Christians during the seventeenth century, the
Moriscos’ suffer from a dual identity crisis in Spain, and that the policy of forced
integration of the Moriscos is an ineffective and counterproductive response to security
concerns. This is a historical fact that has taken root in contemporary times and the
emergence of the extreme left party in various European countries and its racist attitudes
towards Muslims as culturally, socially and religiously different.
