Mozarab

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Mozarab (Spanish: mozárabes; Portuguese: moçárabes; Catalan: mossàrabs; from Arabic: مُسْتَعْرَب, romanized: musta‘rab, lit. 'Arabized') is first documented in Christian sources from the 11th century; the term Mozarab was not used by Muslims to describe Christians. Contemporary Arabic sources described Christians as naṣārā (نصارى 'Nazarenes'), or imprecisely by their legal-religious status: ahl adh-dhimma (أهل الذمة 'people of the covenant') or mu‘āhidūn (معاهدون 'contractual partners').