Christian Granada

How can Granada convert to Christianity and survive for a fairly decent period of time? How long could the conversion process take? Could it survive the expansionism of Castille?
 
Grenada

It does not seem very likely that Granada would convert to Christianity. Many refugees from the Christian conquests of other cities such as Seville and Cordova fled there, and they tended to be very strong Muslims. I'm not aware of any Christianizing trends in Granada during the course of it's existance.
 
913: the Umayyad rebel `Umar ibn Hafs ibn Ya`fa-r converts to Christianity from his stronghold in the Granada region. He allies with the Kingdom of Asturias and proposes to divide Al-Andalus between the two. The war goes well, and they gain territory. When the Fatimids show up, they provide aid to the Christians to undermine Umayyad / Sunni power there. By 1000, there is a much larger Asturias kingdom in the north, but also an Arabic Christian Kingdom of Granada in the south.

Note that most of the population of Al-Andalus in the early 10th century was Christian (Mozarabic), the mass conversions came after the mid-900s.
 
913: the Umayyad rebel `Umar ibn Hafs ibn Ya`fa-r converts to Christianity from his stronghold in the Granada region. He allies with the Kingdom of Asturias and proposes to divide Al-Andalus between the two. The war goes well, and they gain territory. When the Fatimids show up, they provide aid to the Christians to undermine Umayyad / Sunni power there. By 1000, there is a much larger Asturias kingdom in the north, but also an Arabic Christian Kingdom of Granada in the south.

That's not Granada. It's Al-Andalus.
 
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