Islamisation Comparative Perspectives from History

by Peacock, A. C. S.

• ISBN13: 9781474417129
• ISBN10: 1474417124
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-04-01
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Author Biography

A.C.S. Peacock is Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic History at the University of St Andrews, and holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge. His previous publications include The Great Seljuk Empire (2015) and Early Seljuq History (2010).

Table of Contents

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Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Comparative Perspectives on Islamisation, A.C.S. Peacock

Conversion and Islamisation: Theoretical approaches

Global Patterns of Ruler Conversion to Islam and the Logic of Empirical Religiosity, Alan Strathern
Conversion out of Personal Principle: 'Ali b. Rabban al-Tabari (d. c. 860) and 'Abdallah al-Tarjuman (d. c. 1430), Two Converts from Christianity to Islam, David Thomas
The Conversion Curve Revisited, Richard W. Bulliet

The early Islamic and Medieval Middle East

What did Conversion to Islam mean in Seventh-Century Arabia?, Harry Munt
Zoroastrian Fire Temples and the Islamisation of Sacred Space in Early Islamic Iran, Andrew D. Magnusson
'There is no god but God': Islamisation and Religious Code Switching, eighth to tenth centuries, Anna Chrysostomides
Islamisation in Medieval Anatolia, A.C.S. Peacock
Islamisation in the Southern Levant after the End of Frankish Rule: Some General Considerations and a Short Case Study, Reuven Amitai

The Muslim West

Conversion of the Berbers to Islam/Islamisation of the Berbers, Michael Brett
The Islamisation of al-Andalus: Recent Studies and Debates, Maribel Fierro

Sub-Saharan Africa

The Oromo and the Historical Process of Islamisation in Ethiopia, Marco Demichelis
The Archaeology of Islamisation in Sub-Saharan Africa, Timothy Insoll

The Balkans

The Islamisation of Ottoman Bosnia: Myths and Matters, Sanja Kadric
From Shahada to 'Aqida: Conversion to Islam, Catechisation, and Sunnitisation in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Rumeli, Tijana Krstic
Central Asia, Islamisation on the Iranian Periphery: Nasir-i Khusraw and Ismailism in Badakhshan, Daniel Beben
Khwaja Ahmad Yasavi as an Islamising Saint: Rethinking the Role of Sufis in the Islamisation of the Turks of Central Asia, Devin DeWeese
The Role of the Domestic Sphere in the Islamisation of the Mongols, Bruno De Nicola

South Asia

Reconsidering 'Conversion to Islam' in Indian History, Richard M. Eaton
Civilising the Savage: Myth, History, and Persianisation in the Early Delhi Courts of South Asia, Blain Auer

Southeast Asia and the Far East

China and the Rise of Islam on Java, Alexander Wain
The Story of Yusuf and Indonesia's Islamisation: A Work of Literature Plus, E.P. Wiering
Persian Kings, Arab conquerors, and Malay Islam: Comparative perspectives on the place of Muslim epics in the Islamisation of the Chams, Philipp Bruckmayer
Islamisation and Sinicisation: Inversions, Reversions and Alternate Versions of Islam in China, James D. Frankel