- Title Pages
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
-
1 Introduction: Comparative Perspectives on Islamisation -
2 Global Patterns of Ruler Conversion to Islam and the Logic of Empirical Religiosity* -
3 Conversion out of Personal Principle: ʿAli b. Rabban al-Tabari (d. c. 860) and ʿAbdallah al-Tarjuman (D. C. 1430), Two Converts from Christianity to Islam -
4 The Conversion Curve Revisited -
5 What Did Conversion to Islam Mean in Seventh-Century Arabia? -
6 Zoroastrian Fire Temples and the Islamisation of Sacred Space in Early Islamic Iran -
7 ‘There Is No God But God’: Islamisation And Religious Code-Switching, Eighth to Tenth Centuries -
8 Islamisation in Medieval Anatolia* -
9 Islamisation in the Southern Levant after the End of Frankish Rule: Some General Considerations and a Short Case Study* -
10 Conversion of the Berbers to Islam/Islamisation of the Berbers -
11 The Islamisation of Al-Andalus: Recent Studies and Debates* -
12 The Oromo and the Historical Process of Islamisation in Ethiopia -
13 The Archaeology of Islamisation in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Study -
14 The Islamisation of Ottoman Bosnia: Myths and Matters* -
15 From Shahāda to ʿAqīda: Conversion to Islam, Catechisation and Sunnitisation in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Rumeli -
16 Islamisation on the Iranian Periphery: Nasir-i Khusraw and Ismailism in Badakhshan -
17 Khwaja Ahmad Yasavi as an Islamising Saint: Rethinking the Role of Sufis in the Islamisation of the Turks of Central Asia -
18 The Role of the Domestic Sphere in the Islamisation of the Mongols* -
19 Reconsidering ‘Conversion to Islam’ in Indian History* -
20 Civilising the Savage: Myth, History and Persianisation in the Early Delhi Courts of South Asia -
21 China and the Rise of Islam on Java -
22 The Story of Yusuf and Indonesia’s Islamisation: A Work Of Literature Plus -
23 Persian Kings, Arab Conquerors and Malay Islam: Comparative Perspectives on the Place of Muslim Epics in the Islamisation of the Chams -
24 Islamisation and Sinicisation: Inversions, Reversions and Alternate Versions of Islam in China - Index
The Role of the Domestic Sphere in the Islamisation of the Mongols
The Role of the Domestic Sphere in the Islamisation of the Mongols
- Chapter:
- (p.353) 18 The Role of the Domestic Sphere in the Islamisation of the Mongols*
- Source:
- Islamisation
- Author(s):
Bruno De Nicola
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
The Islamisation of the Mongols in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries exhibits some distinctive features compared with the adoption of Islam by other groups. Unlike the cases of the Christian communities of the Middle East during the initial Islamic conquest or the Zoroastrians of Iran, in which the native populations adopted the religion of their conquerors, for the Mongols in the Middle East and Central Asia, conversion followed the opposite trajectory: the conquerors adopted Islam from the native peoples.2 Thus the historical context within which the Mongols (or rather, some Mongols) adopted Islam was more akin to the Germanic peoples who adopted Christianity in the fifth century, or to the Hungarians in the ninth century, rather than to most populations that historically adopted Islam. This difference represents a shift in the power relationship between the converter and the convert that needs to be taken into account when approaching the Islamisation of the Mongols.
Keywords: Islamisation, Mongols, Conversion, Sufis
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- Title Pages
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
-
1 Introduction: Comparative Perspectives on Islamisation -
2 Global Patterns of Ruler Conversion to Islam and the Logic of Empirical Religiosity* -
3 Conversion out of Personal Principle: ʿAli b. Rabban al-Tabari (d. c. 860) and ʿAbdallah al-Tarjuman (D. C. 1430), Two Converts from Christianity to Islam -
4 The Conversion Curve Revisited -
5 What Did Conversion to Islam Mean in Seventh-Century Arabia? -
6 Zoroastrian Fire Temples and the Islamisation of Sacred Space in Early Islamic Iran -
7 ‘There Is No God But God’: Islamisation And Religious Code-Switching, Eighth to Tenth Centuries -
8 Islamisation in Medieval Anatolia* -
9 Islamisation in the Southern Levant after the End of Frankish Rule: Some General Considerations and a Short Case Study* -
10 Conversion of the Berbers to Islam/Islamisation of the Berbers -
11 The Islamisation of Al-Andalus: Recent Studies and Debates* -
12 The Oromo and the Historical Process of Islamisation in Ethiopia -
13 The Archaeology of Islamisation in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Study -
14 The Islamisation of Ottoman Bosnia: Myths and Matters* -
15 From Shahāda to ʿAqīda: Conversion to Islam, Catechisation and Sunnitisation in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Rumeli -
16 Islamisation on the Iranian Periphery: Nasir-i Khusraw and Ismailism in Badakhshan -
17 Khwaja Ahmad Yasavi as an Islamising Saint: Rethinking the Role of Sufis in the Islamisation of the Turks of Central Asia -
18 The Role of the Domestic Sphere in the Islamisation of the Mongols* -
19 Reconsidering ‘Conversion to Islam’ in Indian History* -
20 Civilising the Savage: Myth, History and Persianisation in the Early Delhi Courts of South Asia -
21 China and the Rise of Islam on Java -
22 The Story of Yusuf and Indonesia’s Islamisation: A Work Of Literature Plus -
23 Persian Kings, Arab Conquerors and Malay Islam: Comparative Perspectives on the Place of Muslim Epics in the Islamisation of the Chams -
24 Islamisation and Sinicisation: Inversions, Reversions and Alternate Versions of Islam in China - Index
