WI: South Spain stays Muslim?

What if, after the Reconquista the muslim population was not forced to convert or leave?
Maybe even give them local autonomy later in the south?
How will this affect the culture, language and the relations with the muslim world?
 
What if, after the Reconquista the muslim population was not forced to convert or leave?
Maybe even give them local autonomy later in the south?
How will this affect the culture, language and the relations with the muslim world?

Maybe some 40 % Morisco population, maybe a Bosnia like South Spain ? Granada under a mixed Chritian-Muslim identety maybe from the El Cid times onward ?
 
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What if, after the Reconquista the muslim population was not forced to convert or leave?
Maybe even give them local autonomy later in the south?
How will this affect the culture, language and the relations with the muslim world?
By the end of the Reconquista, Spanish identity was pretty well much defined as Christian and fighting Islam (a bit like the Arabo-Andalu identity was more or less defined by being Islamic and fighting Christians), and arguably, it's not even sure that southern Spain (in its common meaning) was still dominatly Islamic at the end of the XVth century.
(Expulsion of 1502 is that jury-rigged that it's certain the goal was far less the expulsion, at least for the main population, than conversion at all costs, which hints at the really important autonomisation of religious policies in late medieval/early modern Spain)

Note that the edict of 1502 essentially matters for Castille, and had little to no effect in Aragon, part for economical reasons, part for bureaucratic reasons.
An unified Spain could at best tolerate an Islamic population, but not as a particular entity which would have collided far too much with spanish identities and going spectacularily against the unifying tendencies; but that alone wasn"t really enough in Castille.

Maybe a less gradual conquest and a greater focus on plantation economy as it happened in Murcia could do the trick, but frankly I don't believe so : Aragonese economy was more reliant on a morsicos presence, not on their Islamicity.

With a PoD set after 1492 (and arguably, set after the XIIIth), I don't think you'd have any way to make it work in the short-term.
 
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