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Islamisation: Comparative Perspectives from History

A. C. S. Peacock

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Print publication date: 2017 Print ISBN-13: 9781474417129
Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: May 2021 DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474417129.001.0001

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A. C. S. Peacock, editor
University of St Andrews

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Figures and Tables

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction: Comparative Perspectives on Islamisation

A. C. S. Peacock

Part I Conversion and Islamisation: Theoretical Approaches

2 Global Patterns of Ruler Conversion to Islam and the Logic of Empirical Religiosity*

Alan Strathern

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

David Thomas

4 The Conversion Curve Revisited

Richard W. Bulliet

Part II The Early Islamic and Medieval Middle East

5 What Did Conversion to Islam Mean in Seventh-Century Arabia?

Harry Munt

6 Zoroastrian Fire Temples and the Islamisation of Sacred Space in Early Islamic Iran

Andrew D. Magnusson

7 ‘There Is No God But God’: Islamisation And Religious Code-Switching, Eighth to Tenth Centuries

Anna Chrysostomides

8 Islamisation in Medieval Anatolia*

A. C. S. Peacock

9 Islamisation in the Southern Levant after the End of Frankish Rule: Some General Considerations and a Short Case Study*

Reuven Amitai

Part III The Muslim West

10 Conversion of the Berbers to Islam/Islamisation of the Berbers

Michael Brett

11 The Islamisation of Al-Andalus: Recent Studies and Debates*

Maribel Fierro

Part IV Sub-Saharan Africa

12 The Oromo and the Historical Process of Islamisation in Ethiopia

Marco Demichelis

13 The Archaeology of Islamisation in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Study

Timothy Insoll

Part V The Balkans

14 The Islamisation of Ottoman Bosnia: Myths and Matters*

Sanja Kadrić

15 From Shahāda to ʿAqīda: Conversion to Islam, Catechisation and Sunnitisation in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Rumeli

Tijana Krstić

Part VI Central Asia

16 Islamisation on the Iranian Periphery: Nasir-i Khusraw and Ismailism in Badakhshan

Daniel Beben

17 Khwaja Ahmad Yasavi as an Islamising Saint: Rethinking the Role of Sufis in the Islamisation of the Turks of Central Asia

Devin DeWeese

18 The Role of the Domestic Sphere in the Islamisation of the Mongols*

Bruno De Nicola

Part VII South Asia

19 Reconsidering ‘Conversion to Islam’ in Indian History*

Richard M. Eaton

20 Civilising the Savage: Myth, History and Persianisation in the Early Delhi Courts of South Asia

Blain Auer

Part VIII Southeast Asia and the Far East

21 China and the Rise of Islam on Java

Alexander Wain

22 The Story of Yusuf and Indonesia’s Islamisation: A Work Of Literature Plus

Edwin P. Wieringa

23 Persian Kings, Arab Conquerors and Malay Islam: Comparative Perspectives on the Place of Muslim Epics in the Islamisation of the Chams

Philipp Bruckmayr

24 Islamisation and Sinicisation: Inversions, Reversions and Alternate Versions of Islam in China

James D. Frankel

End Matter

Index