Medical-murder conspiracies targeted Jewish converts far more than Muslim converts

Evidence

The conspiracy theory of medical murder stands as a case in point. A comparison of the fears of medical murder by crypto-Jews and crypto-Muslims that existed in early modern Spain and Portugal unambiguously demonstrates the extent to which the anxieties relating to doctors and medical knowledge can generate a potent conspiracy theory when they are combined with xenophobic suspicions about the place and role of religious/ethnic minorities. Yet it also reveals the limits of the notion of a ‘shared history’, since it was focused almost exclusively on the judeoconversos rather than the moriscos. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 419

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: So-called converts of Jewish origin were still deported and killed — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 444