The Inquisition chiefly served political power struggles, not religious goals.

Evidence

The Inquisition was very often an instrument in power struggles in which religious factors were of only marginal relevance and in which the interests of the Muslim/Morisco communities were not at stake at all. We risk distorting reality if we see the Inquisition’s policies as solely, even primarily, directed toward the solution of a “Morisco problem” (or a “Jewish problem”). Yet in the Aragonese political arena, where the Inquisition, acting as the instrument of the new royal bureaucracy, was tending to play an ever more active role, the Moriscos, the crypto- Muslims, were of course particularly vulnerable to Inquisition action. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1184

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader revisionist historiography of the Inquisition as a political tool of royal centralization (e.g. Kamen) rather than purely doctrinal enforcement. — connects to: The Spanish Inquisition was mainly political and economic domination in religious guise. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 117
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1184