identidad y minorías musulmanas en Colombia: ocupación y Gobierno hispánicos del territorio

The article analyses the transformations of the political speech about national identities throw out the history, taking as a reference the case of the Muslims in Colombia, with the purpose of enriching the discussion about the cultural diversity in the formation of Colombian national history, and the discussion about the concepts of identity and difference, to continue in the discernment of what it would mean the ‘colombianity’. One first moment in the history of Muslims in Colombia is the discovery and the conquest of the Hispanic America, where first, the hegemonic speech about national identity was generated, coming from Spain and founded in the catholic religion, on the other hand, it produced the immigration of Moorish elements not only at the cultural level (language, arquitecture, traditions), but also at the institutional level (the town hall, the city hall, and the “alcabala”). This elements have taken roots at the same time of the religious exclusion, to the Colombian ethos. This article analyses this first moment, where the construction of the identity is based on the absolute deny of the religious minorities, but at the same time subordinated speeches are being made against the Catholic hegemony.