摘要：1834年，非斯苏丹公开处决了一名17岁的犹太女孩Sol Hachuel，理由是她背叛了伊斯兰教。 Since then, Sol Hachuel’s story has evoked a long history of Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and also secular interpretive readings. This article puts this historical episode into dialogue with the literature on religious “conversion” in Africa. By placing Sol Hachuel’s experiences at the center of its analysis, this article argues that her “conversion” may have constituted an attempt to remove herself from an abusive situation rather than a genuine shift in religious allegiance from Judaism to Islam. In doing so, this article adds to a growing body of literature that demonstrates the limits of the social-structuralist and intellectualist theories of “conversion” for explaining the nature of religious change in Africa and highlights the ambiguity that can exist over religious identities when majority and minority religious communities live side by side.