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Inspired by this thread: https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=215558 and based on my thread earlier on "What exactly would it take for the HRE to be centralized and united in the Staufen era?", this is for Al-Andalus (A Muslim, Iberian-based polity) post-1200.

What would it take? Can it be done?

The Emirate of Granada lasting a little longer isn't enough - I mean something that can contest control of the peninsula with the Christian powers.

It doesn't have to take it all, but what would it take for it to remain/become such a power?

Could this be done without there being one united Muslim state on the peninsula? For most of the Reconquestia, the Christian kingdoms were divided amongst themselves - Castile vs. Leon vs. Aragon and picking on Navarre when there was nothing better to do.

Or is this something where the (Iberian) Muslim presence is too weak, and it would be part of an Africa-based Muslim polity, if it existed at all?

Surely there's nothing that means that the Christian kingdoms inevitably are able to avoid civil war and crown-vs.-noble struggles leaving them weakened but Muslim states can no more avoid that than the 15th century Byzantines could avoid failing in the end.
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