Moorish-themed literature voiced a broad opposition coalition against repression

Evidence

Maurophilia is the voice of a coalition of forces and groupings engaged in a struggle against the policy of duress and violence. This coalition was made up of the nobility, the Moriscos, the bourgeoisie, the [Jewish] conversos, the “political” intellectuals, clerics of an irenic persuasion, “liberals” as we would say nowadays. It is a whole opposition contingent that we would hardly expect to come across if we were to judge solely from the bibliography available to us. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 950

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to my reading on how cultural production encodes political resistance (e.g., craft-as-protest in other colonial contexts).
• QUESTION: How did a literary genre become a vehicle for an opposition coalition spanning nobles, Moriscos, conversos, and clerics? Worth investigating the mechanics.