Abdullah Farooqi

Biography

My research focuses on the (re)construction of Jewish, Muslim, and crypt-religious identity in the wake of the Christian conquest of Granada in 1492, the expulsions of Jews from Iberia between 1492 and 1498, and the forced conversions of Spanish Muslims to Christianity in the decades that followed. Specifically, it explores how these religious groups (re)conceived their identities in eschatological terms, against the background of heightened millenarian expectations in the late 15th and early 16th century Mediterranean, and at the possible instigation of their co- religionists abroad in North Africa and Egypt. My research focuses on the (re)construction of Jewish, Muslim, and crypt-religious identity in the wake of the Christian conquest of Granada in 1492, the expulsions of Jews from Iberia between 1492 and 1498, and the forced conversions of Spanish Muslims to Christianity in the decades that followed. Specifically, it explores how these religious groups (re)conceived their identities in eschatological terms, against the background of heightened millenarian expectations in the late 15th and early 16th century Mediterranean, and at the possible instigation of their co- religionists abroad in North Africa and Egypt.

Research Interest

History