The 1570s scattering of Granadans created peninsula-wide crypto-Muslim solidarity.

Evidence

Hitherto, in late medieval times, Mudejars and Nasrids were not bound by ties of mutual interest (and Mudejars had even served in the Granadan wars on the Castilian side). In the early years of the sixteenth century, some tenuous bonds were being established between northern ex-Mudejars and southern ex-subjects of the Nasrid kingdom. The consciousness among the Muslims of the peninsula of a common cause certainly did not become marked until much later, until after the suppression of the Second Granadan Rebellion in the 1570s. At that point, the scattering of the Granadans did create peninsula-wide crypto-Muslim solidarity. Yet the merging of the various communities was never complete, even at the end, and very many factors still sustained distinctions between the various groups of Muslims, right up to the time of their expulsion, and indeed, beyond, into exile. The crypto- Muslims of Spain never became a homogenous group. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 400

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The deliberate forced dispersal of one subgroup is what finally welded otherwise-fragmented co-religionists into a shared identity — a counterintuitive mechanism of solidarity formation through coerced mobility.