The mass conversions actually launched underground crypto-Islam in Granada.

Evidence

Cisneros had successfully argued that the Muslims had lost all claim to continue to be treated according to the 1492 peace terms, so that now the monarchs might impose whatever terms they saw fit. Faced with the determined campaign of conversions pushed through by Cisneros, the Muslims gave up overt resistance (we will soon see that covert resistance never ceased). They converted in large numbers, 50,000 souls accepted baptism, says Alonso de Santa Cruz (1951), 60,000 said Pope Alexander VI in the letter of congratulations that he sent to Cisneros on March 27, 1500). With hindsight we can probably best understand the “success” of the drive for conversion to Christianity as something quite different: for the Muslims of Granada it marked the beginning of underground crypto-Islam, which will be discussed below. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 185 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Those who did not live near enough to the coast to plot such an escape had to find other means of surviving as Muslims. It is against this background that we must understand the reaction of the Muslim masses to conversion: it was to turn their religion, always hitherto thought of as essentially a faith to be lived and proclaimed in public, into a secret and underground phenomenon. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 272 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Forced mass baptism in Granada birthed underground crypto-Islam. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 185; Forced conversion drove Islam underground in Spain; Forced conversion drove formerly public Islam underground and clandestine — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 272 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Forced mass baptism in Granada birthed underground crypto-Islam. #corroborates (1.00) — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 185
• Forced conversion drove Islam underground in Spain #corroborates (0.95)
• Forced conversion drove formerly public Islam underground and clandestine #corroborates (0.93) — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 272