Blas Infante Pérez de Vargas (5 July 1885 – 11 August 1936) was an Andalusian socialist politician,[2] Georgist,[3] writer, historian and musicologist.

[5] It also embraced the current flag and emblem as national symbols, designed by Infante himself based on various historic Andalusian standards.

[6] During the Second Spanish Republic, the Andalucismo was represented by the Junta Liberalista, a federalist political party led by Infante.

Infante was among numerous political figures who were summarily executed by Franco's forces when they took over Seville at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.

[15] Blas Infante met the agricultural engineers Antonio Albendín Orejón and Juan Sánchez Mejía in Cantillana.

Albendín, who lived in Ronda, was one of the introducers to Spain of the physiocratic ideas of the American Henry George, including a single land tax.

He also idealized the Al-Andalus era of Andalusia, describing it as the "golden age" of Andalusian history and an important marker of regional identity.

[8] His ideas contrasted sharply with the fascist Francoists who sought to repress the traces Andalusia's Islamic past.

[26] From a spiritual standpoint, Blas Infante was a mere eclectic, with deep humanitarianist and masonic pantheist convictions.

[27] Some milieus (including Spanish right-wing elements and Morisco-descendent communities in Morocco) persistently attribute Blas Infante an alleged conversion to Islam in 1924 in Aghmat.

[30] Spanish historian Enrique Iniesta counted mentions of 36 saints and 175 theologians (orthodox and heterodox) in his unpublished writings.