Conversion and Islam in the Early Modern Mediterranean
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Analyses Conversion
anti-Christian Polemic
Catalan Writings
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cross-religious conversion dynamics
cultural translation studies
Danubian Principalities
De Epalza
Domagoj Madunic
Early Modern Mediterranean
early modern social integration
Elisabetta Benigni
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Gino Benzoni
Giorgio Rota
Great Sovereign Tsar
Houssem Eddine Chachia
interfaith relations history
Martin Mulsow
Mediterranean acculturation
Mercurius Publicus
Michal Wasiucionek
Morisco Community
Murad III
Muslim World
narrative
Ottoman Cartographies
Ottoman Empire society
Ottoman non-Muslim Subjects
Palmira Brummett
Philip III
Pio Monte
Pio Monte Della Misericordia
religious identity formation
Rosita D'Amora
Sacra Congregatio De Propaganda Fide
Spanish Language
Sultan Murad III
Tobias P. Graf
Unpaid Gambling Debts
Vice Versa
Wallachian Boyar
Yeni Valide Mosque
Young Men
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- ISBN 9781472457226
- Weight: 498g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 14 Feb 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 religious conversion between Christianity, Judaism and Islam often had a more pragmatic and prosaic aspect that constituted a form of cultural translation and a means of establishing communal belonging through the shared, and often contested articulation of religious identities. The chapters in this volume do not view religion simply as a specific set of orthodox beliefs and strict practices to be adopted wholesale by the religious individual or convert. Rather, they analyze conversion as the acquisition of a set of historically contingent social practices, which facilitated the process of social, political or religious acculturation. Exploring the role conversion played in the fabrication of cosmopolitan Mediterranean identities, the volume examines the idea of the convert as a mediator and translator between cultures. Drawing upon a diverse range of research areas and linguistic skills, the volume utilises primary sources in Ottoman, Persian, Arabic, Latin, German, Hungarian and English within a variety of genres including religious tracts, diplomatic correspondence, personal memoirs, apologetics, historical narratives, official documents and commands, legal texts and court records, and religious polemics. As a result, the collection provides readers with theoretically informed, new research on the subject of conversion to or from Islam in the early modern Mediterranean world.
Claire Norton is Reader in History at St Mary’s University, Twickenham.
