Lack of overseas Muslim aid forced mass conversion in Granada

Evidence

And yet at the same time many Granadan Muslims, unable or unwilling to fight yet another war, did accept conversion. The sustained military action, the repeated evangelizing campaigns, above all, the absence of any significant aid from Muslim countries overseas, combined with the promptings of these local leaders who were collaborationists, must have convinced those who wished to stay on in their homeland that sooner or later they were going to have to accept the baptism that was being thrust upon them, and so they were perhaps well advised to do so on the best terms available. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 218 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Writers later in the sixteenth century, trying to find an explanation for the ultimate failure of the Spanish Christian attempt to turn Muslims into Christians, besides condemning the perversity of the stubborn Muslims, also often laid some blame on deficiencies in the initial evangelization campaigns, but there is no reason to suppose that the ecclesiastical authorities did not take their new task seriously, although we must bear in mind the limited means available to them. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 367 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Granada’s conquest guaranteed religious freedom but conversion came later; Converts to Islam were accepted because Islam dominated Granada; Granadan Muslims converted mainly because no foreign Muslim aid ever arrived — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 218 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Granadan Muslims converted mainly because no foreign Muslim aid ever arrived #corroborates (0.98) — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 218
• The conversion of Spanish Muslims failed partly from under-resourced evangelization #complicates (0.76) — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 367