Conversion and Islam in the Early Modern Mediterranean : The Lure of the Other (Hardcover)

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 Maduni?] 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/Abdall?h al-Tarjum?n (1355-1423) - Friar, Muslim, Convert and Translator [Elisabetta Benigni]