Spanish Reconquest writers saw Islam’s defeat as inevitable and foreordained

Evidence

In contrast, the work of Alfonso a Spina, written from the point of view of the Spanish Reconquest, sees the physical, and even the doctrinal, struggle of Islam as a gradual subjection to Christendom, bound finally to lead to extinction. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1550

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