The 1492 conquest of Granada did not force any Muslims to convert

Evidence

It was not until 1500 that Muslims in Spain had to confront the problem of what to do about the threat of conversion under duress. The year 1492 had been a landmark year, certainly, but whereas the conquest of Granada brought the end of the last bastion of political autonomy for Muslims in the peninsula, it did not bring about any forcible conversions. After 1492 all up and down the length and breadth of Spain Muslims in practice enjoyed freedom to worship as their forefathers had worshipped before, and those rights were in most cases entrenched not just in a single constitutional instrument but also in an array of capitulations, charters, coronation oaths, and other formal guarantees. The Muslims of the formerly independent Muslim Kingdom of Granada after 1492 simply had their status assimilated to that of the Mudejars (“subject Muslims who accepted Christian rule”) of the rest of the peninsula. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 100

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the technical term Mudejars: ‘subject Muslims who accepted Christian rule’.
• XREF: Connects to the general arc of the Spanish Inquisition and forced-conversion history; contrasts with the standard mental image of 1492 as the collapse of Muslim Spain.