, Spanish mozarabe , Portuguese moçarabe , Catalan mossarab , a word of uncertain origin for which two etymologies have been propounded. In the 13th century, the Archbishop Rodrigo Ximenez ( De rebus Hispaniae , iii, 22) declared ¶ that the Christians living under Muslim rule after the conquest of 92/711 “Dicti sunt mixli arabes, eo quod mixti Arabibus convivebant”. This Latin-based interpretation is the earliest known etymology of the word Mozarab. However, Arabist scholars of the 19th century (following F.J. Simonet) considered it an arabism, derived from mustaʿrab , mustaʿrib with…