Mudéjar solidarity with converts, not theology, triggered the forced conversions

Evidence

The elche question was the aspect of the 1492 Capitulations that furnished the issue over which it was easiest to arouse Christian public opinion. The 1492 surrender terms in effect had meant that an individual was to be permitted to follow his own judgment against the doctrine of the Church. The whole of Western Europe was about to tear itself apart over exactly that theological question. Not that the Muslims of Granada took their stand on any point of theological principle. For them it was rather a matter of the support that any one of them owed to fellow members of the community. And as has been explained above, the position was that “once a Muslim, always a Muslim.” — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 190

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the general theme of religious community solidarity trumping individual conscience, parallels the martyr-vs-convert dynamics in early Islamic history and later converso debates.