1st Edition

Conversion and Islam in the Early Modern Mediterranean The Lure of the Other

229 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

234 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

234 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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The topic of religious conversion into and out of Islam as a historical phenomenon is mired in a sea of debate and misunderstanding. It has often been viewed as the permanent crossing of not just a religious divide, but in the context of the early modern Mediterranean also political, cultural and geographic boundaries. Reading between the lines of a wide variety of sources, however, suggests that... Read more

Introduction

[Claire Norton]

Section 1: Trans-Imperial Subjects: Geo-Political Spatialities, Political Advancement and Conversion

1. Trans-Imperial Nobility: The Case of Carlo Cigala (1556-1631)

[Tobias P. Graf]

2. Conversion Under the Threat of Arms: Converts and Renegades during the War for Crete (1645-1669)

[Domagoj Madunić]

3. Conversion to Islam (and Sometimes a Return to Christianity) in Safavid Persia in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

[Giorgio Rota]

4. Danube-Hopping: Conversion, Jurisdiction and Spatiality Between the Ottoman Empire and the Danubian Principalities in the Seventeenth Century

[Michał Wasiucionek]

Section 2: Fashioning Identities: Conversion and the Threat to Self

5. The Early Modern Convert as "Public Property": A Typology of Turning

[Palmira Brummett]

6. The Moment of Choice: The Moriscos on the Border of Christianity and Islam

[Houssam Eddine Chachia]

7. "Saving a Slave, Saving a Soul": The Rhetoric of Losing the True Faith in Seventeenth-Century Italian Textual and Visual Sources

[Rosita D’Amora]

Section 3: Translating the Self: Devotion, Hybridity and Religious Conversion

8. Antitrinitarians and Conversion to Islam: Adam Neuser Reads Murad b. Abdullah in Ottoman Istanbul

[Martin Mulsow]

9. The Many Languages of the Self in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Anselm Turmeda/Abdallāh al-Tarjumān (1355-1423) - Friar, Muslim, Convert and Translator

[Elisabetta Benigni]