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This book deals with the religious and ideological consequences of mass conversion in Iberia - where Jews and Muslims were forcibly converted or expelled at the end of the XVth century and beginning of the XVIth- and most specially with the relationship between origins and faith. It also deals with the consequences of coercion on intellectual debates and on the production of knowledge and addresses questions such as dissimulation, dissidence, religious doubt and unbelief.
About the author
Mercedes García-Arenal is a Research professor at the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CCHS-CSIC, Madrid) and PI of the CORPI project. She is a cultural historian of the Early Modern Muslim West (Islam in the Iberian Peninsula and the Maghreb) and has published extensively on religious minorities, processes of conversion, messianism, millenarianism, and the Spanish Inquisition. Her best known book was written with Gerard A. Wiegers,
A Man of Three Worlds: Samuel Pallache, a Moroccan Jew between Catholic and Protestant Europe (2003), first published in Spanish (1999) and translated into Arabic, Italian and Dutch. She is co-editor of
The Expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain: A Mediterranean Diaspora (2014) and co-author of
The Orient in Spain: Converted Muslims, the Forged Lead Books of Granada and the Rise of Orientalism (2013).
