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the members of the Muslim population who remained in Spain after the fall of the emirate of Granada in 1492.

Forcibly converted to Christianity, the majority of Moriscos continued to profess Islam in secret. They were harshly persecuted by the Inquisition and were forbidden to use Arabic or to give their children Arabic names; Arabic books were burned. Tens of thousands of Moriscos perished on the pyres of the Inquisition.

The Morisco rebellion of 1568–70 was ruthlessly crushed, and a considerable number of Moriscos were exiled to the barren interior of Spain. In 1609–10 the Moriscos were expelled from Spain. The majority resettled in North Africa; in Morocco they formed the oligarchic republic of Bou Regreg, which existed from 1627 to 1641, while many others settled along the Algerian coast and in northern Tunisia.

The expulsion of the Moriscos had grave economic consequences for Spain’s southern provinces. At the same time it contributed to the rise of horticulture, irrigated cultivation, and craft industries in Tunisia.

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Esta edicion critica ademas de reivindicar el valor de esta comedia per se, tambien entra dentro de una corriente de estudios de gran fecundidad, "la controversia de los moriscos," que es uno de los grandes temas de la historia social espanola (15).
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Jose Carlos Vizuete es un profesor de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha al que el arzobispo de Granada, monsenor Francisco Javier Martinez, le encomendo la delicada tarea de exhumar y editar los documentos concernientes a los denominados martires de las Alpujairas, es decir, los martires cristianos de la rebelion de los moriscos entre 1568 y 1571 que tuvo su escenario principal en las serranias de las provincias de Granada y Almeria.
Al verse desterrados por el fanatismo del pueblo y de las autoridades, los liberales exiliados compararon su suerte con la de los moriscos expulsados en 1609 por Felipe III.