Guest Lecture (Zoom)Conversion as Soul Searching and Add-on ConversionWed. Apr. 14, 2021

14 April 2021

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We cordially invite you to our interdisciplinary guest lecture "Conversion as Soul Searching and Add-on conversion" on Wed. Apr. 14, 2021,
5 -7 pm (German time) on Zoom. For registration please contact romanislam@uni-hamburg.de(Katharina.Mewes"AT"uni-hamburg.de)

The format comprises the lectures "Constantine and conversion to Christianity" by Claire Sotinel (Université Paris-Est Créteil) and "Conversion to Islam in late antique and early medieval Nort Africa" by Christian C. Sahner (University of Oxford).

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