[193] Fernández y González, p. 346.
[194] Coleccion de Documentos de la Corona de Aragon, VI, 255.—Partidas, P. VII, Tit. xxv, ley 10.
[195] Tratados de Legislacion Musulmana, p. 7 (Madrid, 1853). In this collection the Leyes de los Moros probably date from about the year 1300. Ice Gebir’s Suma de los principales Mandamientos was written in 1462. It would not be easy to find a more practical moral code than that presented in the short precepts assembled in Ice Gebir’s first chapter (pp. 250 sqq.). It is somewhat surprising to learn that in the alchihéd, or holy war against Christians, it was forbidden to slay non-combatants—women, children, old men and even monks and friars unless they defended themselves by force (cap. xxxv, p. 333). Even harmless things, such as ants and frogs, are not to be deprived of life (cap. clvii, p. 400). The vital reproach to be brought against Islam is the position assigned to woman—her degradation in her relations to man, and her scant recognition as a human being. In a classification of society into twelve orders, the eleventh is that of baldios or robbers, sorcerers, pirates, drunkards, etc., and the twelfth and lowest is woman (Ib. cap. lx, pp. 412, 415).
[196] The ballad chronicler relates how—
Et los moros é las moras
Muy grandes juegos hacian,
Los judíos con las toras
Estos Reyes bien recibian.
Fernández y González, p. 239.
[197] Crónica de Juan II, año IV, cap. 26.
[198] Coleccion de Documentos de la Corona de Aragon, VIII, 53.—Memorial histórico español, I, 239, 263; III, 439.
[199] Fernández y González, p. 389.
[200] Ibid. pp. 382, 386.
[201] Janer, Condicion Social de los Moriscos de España, pp. 47-9, 161, 162 (Madrid, 1857).