Early Modern Dialogue with Islam: Antonio de Sosa's Topography of Algiers (1612)An Early Modern Dialogue with Islam: Antonio de Sosa'sTopography of Algiers (1612) makes available in translation a riveting sixteenth century chronicle of European and North African cultural contacts that is virtually unknown to English speaking readers. The Topography was written by a Portuguese cleric, Doctor Antonio de Sosa, who was captured by Algerian corsairs in 1577 and held as a Barbary slave for over four years while awaiting ransom. Sosa's