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Mudejar(from Arabic mudajjan: “permitted to remain”) Any member of a group of Muslims who remained in Spain after the Christian reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula (11th–15th century). In return for payment of a tax, the Mudejars were a protected minority, allowed to keep their religion, language, and customs. They formed separate communities in larger towns, where they were subject to their own Muslim laws. By the 13th century they had begun to use Spanish, which they wrote in Arabic characters. After 1492 they were forced to leave Spain or convert to Christianity, and by the early 17th century more than three million Spanish Muslims had been expelled. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The nearby Alcazar was built in the 14th century in the mudejar style, a combination of Moorish and Gothic architectures. On a massive rock in the hills behind Lisbon, It was the country seat of the kings of Portugal, and their palace, which dominates the village, is memorable not only for its fantastic conical kitchen chimneys, but for the intricacy of Its Mudejar architecture: a subtle blend of Classical and Arab themes. The means he employed to exploit the structural potential of brick in the new Quarr Abbey church owed much to his reading of Auguste Choisy's analysis of the history of architecture,(19) enriched by his own experiments in earlier building phases at Oosterhout and Quarr, by his recently acquired knowledge of Dutch architecture and the first-hand studies he had made as a student of Mozarabic, Mudejar, Romanesque and Gothic architecture in Spain. |
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