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Conversion and Islam in the Early Modern Mediterranean - The Lure of the Other (Hardcover)
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Conversion and Islam in the Early Modern Mediterranean - The Lure of the Other (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Early Modern History
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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.
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