French frontier contact shifted Morisco leadership from Granada to Aragon and Valencia

Evidence

The new orientation at first served them well. Philip, with such enemies abroad, could not risk putting into action any of the anti-Morisco schemes that had so recently seemed feasible. The new importance in Morisco politics of the French frontier meant that it was the Morisco communities of the northeast, Aragon and, to a lesser extent, Valencia, those who were in a position to maintain contact with Europe north of the Pyrenees, who took over the leadership of Spanish Islam. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1588