Young Man of Arévalo

[3] His birth date is unknown, but his youth was estimated to be in the period following the end of Reconquista, marked by the Fall of Granada in 1492 and the forced conversion of Muslims in Castile, 1500–1502.

[3] Places he visited include Alcántara, Almagro, Astorga, Ávila, Gandia, Granada, Jaén, Ocaña, Requena, Ronda, Segovia, and Zaragoza.

[3][5] He collaborated with Bray de Reminjo, the faqih of the village of Cadrete in Aragon,[6] to write an Islamic religious manual called Brief compendium of our sacred law and sunna, in the 1530s.

[3] Bray de Reminjo described him as "intellectual", a Castilian from Arévalo, and described that in addition to speaking Spanish and being well-versed in aljamiado, he also read Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.

[7] His works show his familiarity with the Quran, the writings of Thomas à Kempis, especially The Imitation of Christ, as well as the medieval novel La Celestina.

[12] He wrote at least three extant works, the Brief compendium of our sacred law and sunna (c. 1533[13]), the Tafsira (c. 1533[14]), and the Summary of the Account and Spiritual Exercise (c. shortly before 1550[15]), all written in Spanish with Arabic script (aljamiado), and primarily about religious topics.

[20] The passages were often adapted to replace specific Christian contexts and features with Islamic ones while keeping the spiritual and moral meaning intact.