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Mudejar

Mudéjar is the name given to the individual Moors of Al-Andalus who remained in Iberia after the Christian Reconquista. A Mudejar is not converted to Christianity as opposed to a “morisco”.

The Mudéjar style is a symbiosis of techniques and ways of creating resulting from Muslim and Christian cultures living side by side. It emerged as a ceramic and architectural style in the 12<sup>th</sup> century on the Iberian peninsula

 

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