Call for Papers: The Lure of the ‘Other’: Religious Conversion and Reversion in the Early Modern Mediterranean and Beyond

A symposium to be held at St Mary’s University College, Twickenham, London, June 4th-5th, 2013 The topic of religious conversion into and out of Islam as a historical phenomenon is one that is mired in a sea of debate and misunderstanding. Religious conversion tends to be viewed as the crossing of a line that cannot be re-crossed. However, the convert traversed not only religious divisions, but in an early modern/Renaissance context, frequently political, cultural and geographic boundaries a..