Description: The papers in this volume investigate the two important movements of conversion that frame late antiquity: Christianity and Islam. Despite their historical significance, those two movements of conversion have never been systematically compared to each other, and this volume attempts to do this by studying the various issues at stake in conversion f
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"There are several other good articles that round out this collection, which is well worth exploring. In toto, it makes many exciting contributions to the fields of conversion studies and Christian-Muslim relations."
John D'Alton, Monash University, Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
"This excellent collection of essays, based on conferences held at the University of Oxford in 2009 and 2010, stages two critical interventions in the study of late antique conversion."
Andrew S. Jacobs, Scripps College, Claremont, California