Abraham Miguel Cardoso
Spanish physician
Abraham Miguel Cardozo (also Cardoso; c. 1626–1706) was a Sabbatean prophet and physician born in Rio Seco, Spain.
Biography
A descendant of Conversos from around the city of Celorico da Beira in Portugal, he studied medicine at the University of Salamanca together with his older brother, Isaac Cardoso. While his brother Isaac focused on his academic studies, contemporary reports suggest that Miguel may have engaged more actively in social or cultural activities during this period. After having completed his education, he left Spain for Venice. There, probably at the instigation of his brother, he embraced Judaism and received the name "Abraham". Later, he established himself as a physician in Livorno but did not meet with much success until his recommendation by the Grand Duke of Tuscany to Osman Saqizli, the dey of Ottoman Tripolitania.
Becoming thereafter fairly prosperous, Cardoso married two wives and began to devote himself to Kabbalistic speculations, in which he appears to have been previously initiated at Livorno by Moses Pinheiro. With the appearance of the Sabbataean movement, he began to proclaim himself as a prophet, claiming to have had dreams and visions, and sent circulars to select locations to support the claimed messiahship of Sabbatai Zevi. Cardoso's belief that Zevi was the Jewish Messiah continued even when Zevi embraced Islam.
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