Internal factionalism, not Spanish strength, shaped the Granada war’s middle phase

Evidence

It is remarkable that the most significant developments in this middle phase of the war in Granada came not because of the success of Spanish initiatives, but from dissensions within the Morisco camp. They were themselves deeply divided. They had rarely, even at the height of the campaigning in the fifteenth century, been able to overcome that tendency to divide into factions, and they would often prefer the settling of scores to the prosecution of overall objectives. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1031

Categorization

• XREF: The fifteenth-century factional pattern strongly parallels the Abencerrajes/Zegríes feuding that destroyed the Nasrid kingdom, and connects to broader collapse-of-confederacies themes.