Marc David Baer is professor of international history at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe (2008); The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks (2010); and Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks: Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide (2020).

This biography succeeds in contextualizing his ideas, while leaving the man himself, rightly perhaps, still somewhat in the shadows.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Goethe as Pole Star1. Fighting for Gay Rights in Berlin, 1900–19252. Queer Convert: Protestant Islam in Weimar Germany, 1925–19333. A Jewish Muslim in Nazi Berlin, 1933–19394. Who Writes Lives: Swiss Refuge, 1939–19655. Hans Alienus: Yearning, Gay Writer, 1948–1965Conclusion: A Goethe Mosque for BerlinNotesBibliographyIndex

Marc David Baer is professor of international history at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe (2008); The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks (2010); and Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks: Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide (2020).

This biography succeeds in contextualizing his ideas, while leaving the man himself, rightly perhaps, still somewhat in the shadows.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Goethe as Pole Star1. Fighting for Gay Rights in Berlin, 1900–19252. Queer Convert: Protestant Islam in Weimar Germany, 1925–19333. A Jewish Muslim in Nazi Berlin, 1933–19394. Who Writes Lives: Swiss Refuge, 1939–19655. Hans Alienus: Yearning, Gay Writer, 1948–1965Conclusion: A Goethe Mosque for BerlinNotesBibliographyIndex

Marc David Baer is professor of international history at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe (2008); The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks (2010); and Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks: Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide (2020).

This biography succeeds in contextualizing his ideas, while leaving the man himself, rightly perhaps, still somewhat in the shadows.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Goethe as Pole Star1. Fighting for Gay Rights in Berlin, 1900–19252. Queer Convert: Protestant Islam in Weimar Germany, 1925–19333. A Jewish Muslim in Nazi Berlin, 1933–19394. Who Writes Lives: Swiss Refuge, 1939–19655. Hans Alienus: Yearning, Gay Writer, 1948–1965Conclusion: A Goethe Mosque for BerlinNotesBibliographyIndex