- Title Pages
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
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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
Reconsidering ‘Conversion to Islam’ in Indian History
Reconsidering ‘Conversion to Islam’ in Indian History
- Chapter:
- (p.379) 19 Reconsidering ‘Conversion to Islam’ in Indian History*
- Source:
- Islamisation
- Author(s):
Richard M. Eaton
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
Inasmuch as about a third of the world’s Muslims reside in South Asia, the question of how and why this came about should be high on our collective agenda. To explain this, however, we need to clear the air of a number of common misconceptions, beginning with ‘conversion’, a term that has greatly distorted our understanding of South Asia’s religious history. The verb ‘to convert’, which literally means to ‘turn around’ or ‘turn over’, implies not only a suddenness of religious change, but a complete rejection of a former cultural identity and the deliberate adoption of a new one. Such a view of religious change seems to be a product of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century worldwide Protestant missionary movement, in which conversion was understood as darkness replaced by light, and error by truth.
Keywords: Muslims, South Asia, India, Conversion, Islam
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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
