The Alpujarras war destroyed the medieval accommodation between Spain’s religions

Evidence

This history begins in 1500 or, perhaps more precisely, on December 18, 1499. On that day the inhabitants of what was then the principal Muslim quarter of the city of Granada, the Albaic´ın, exasperated with the failure of the Castilian authorities to respect certain fundamental clauses of the terms whereby the city had been surrendered eight years earlier (in particular, failure to keep the promises made to respect their right to live as Muslims), rose in revolt and took over their part of the city. In their own narrow and winding streets the populace easily established control, but theirs was a singularly ill-prepared revolt which collapsed within three days (just when disaffection was beginning to spread outside the city to the mountainous expanses of the Alpujarras, for example, where things went differently). Order was swiftly restored in the Albaic´ın, so what happened in Granada between December 1499 and January 1500 might well by now be remembered, if at all, as a merely local affair, an urban riot stifled by firm police action were it not that it marks a significant divide in the history of the Iberian Peninsula as a whole and the beginning of a process that led to the end of Spanish Islam altogether, 114 years later. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 16 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Both Christianity and Islam in sixteenth-century Spain rejected religious compromise — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 364; A failed revolt by Granada Muslims in 1499 triggered the elimination of Spanish Islam — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 16

Broader Connections

• A failed revolt by Granada Muslims in 1499 triggered the elimination of Spanish Islam #complicates (0.78) — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 16