Professor Fernando Plata participates as respondent in a symposium on moriscos at Syracuse University

The meeting “Memory and Polemics: A Symposium on Moriscos,” was held at Syracuse University on March 2, 2019. Professor Plata delivered a response to a paper by Professor Lisette Balabarca (Siena College) on “Moriscos en el exilio y la polémica anticristiana: el caso de Ibrahim Taybili y Muhammad Alguazir.” Both paper and response focused on an anti-Catholic defense of Islam written in Spanish octavas by Ibrahim Taybili (a.k.a. Juan Pérez) in 1628 during his exile in Tunisia.