05 — Arrest and Trial

The legal world that produced the Córdoba martyrdoms, and its application to Laura. The well-documented framework of the dhimma — the capital charges of blasphemy and apostasy, the qadi, and the dynamics that produced the martyrdoms — is drawn boldly; the charge against Laura, for which no trial record survives, is reconstructed from the movement’s pattern and reported as such.

File	Description
under-the-dhimma-law.md	The legal framework: apostasy and blasphemy under Mālikī law, the qadi, the jizya and the dhimma, and the dynamics that produced the martyrdoms
the-charge-against-laura.md	The accusation against Laura, treated source-critically; the chronological problem of the “influence of Eulogius”; the absence of a preserved charge

See Also

• 01 — Foundations — the Umayyad political context
• 02 — The Martyrs of Córdoba — the movement and the historiographical debate
• 06 — The Martyrdom — the death that followed
• Master README — the collection overview