Arabic-L:LIT:Conversion Stories in Early Narratives query

[Dilworth Parkinson]

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Date:  05 Dec 2002
From:Dilworth Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject:Conversion Stories in Early Narratives query

A professor who teaches Golden Age Spanish Literature has asked the
following:
He says that in Cervantes Don Quixote there is an inset story of a man
being imprisoned in North Africa, and being saved by a women who has
secretly converted to Christianity.  Apparently such conversion stories
were commonly used in Spanish narratives of the era, and served both an
obvious political/cultural purpose as well as several more subtle
literary ones.
His students have asked him, and he didn't know the answer, whether in
the Islamic literary tradition (any time period would do but it would
be particularly helpful if it was more or less the same time as
Cervantes) there were any similar uses in narrative of stories of
someone converting from Christianity to Islam.  He is particularly
interested in a specific reference that he could use in class or assign
the students to read.  Any help will be appreciated.  You can respond
directly to me and I will post a summary to the list.
Dil Parkinson

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