ABSTRACT
Sixteenth-century Antitrinitarians saw themselves in the forefront of the Protestant reformation, reading the Bible with historical-critical attention and denying any Biblical foundations of the doctrine of the divinity of Christ. However, in a few cases, there were indeed personal encounters between these theologians and Muslims, and even a few cases of conversion to Islam. In any event, Adam Neuser became an opponent of the Trinity doctrine; in 1570, he wrote a letter to the Sultan in Istanbul, Selim II, asserting that Christianity was corrupt, that Islam was better and that the Sultan should therefore take his army and conquer Europe. When he finally did make it across it to the Ottoman side, he was apprehended and had no choice but to convert to Islam, otherwise it was likely that he would have faced a long imprisonment on suspicion of espionage, or — even worse — been extradited to the Habsburg Empire.
