Anouar Majid's scholarly study of the historical relationship between Western Christendom and Islam, published by the University of Minnesota Press. Its account of the 1609-1614 expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain carries two named, dated, sharply disagreeing mortality estimates: the contemporary chronicler Pedro Aznar Cardona's 1612 treatise (over 50,000 killed resisting expulsion in Spain plus over 60,000 dying in passage abroad, roughly 110,000 total across October 1609 to July 1611, about 17 percent of the Morisco population) and Henry Charles Lea's 1901 claim of a 67 to 75 percent death rate, which the chapter itself calls difficult to verify against a maximalist tendency in Lea's own wider body of work.
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Reliability TierPeer-reviewed-standard academic monograph from a university press, synthesizing and critically comparing primary contemporary chronicles and prior historiography rather than repeating a single figure uncritically. NotesA university-press academic monograph that names, dates and directly compares two competing historical mortality estimates for the Morisco expulsion rather than offering only one; used here as the axis's own poled death-toll range, the same shape Lea's 1391 figure already carries on this axis, where later historians likewise regard his number as maximalist against a more conservative contemporary account. 1 Citation
PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press 1 Publication Year Sources
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- Religious Events, 3 claims: 2 scholarly debate, 1 general references.
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