Islamisation : : Comparative Perspectives from History /

Islamisation : : Comparative Perspectives from History / / A. C. S. Peacock.

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Examines Islamisation as both a cultural and religious phenomenonThe spread of Islam and the process of Islamisation (meaning both conversion to Islam and the adoption of Muslim culture) is explored in the twenty-four chapters of this volume. Taking a comparative perspective, both the historical tra...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
VerfasserIn:
Peacock, A. C. S.,
MitwirkendeR:
Amitai, Reuven,
Auer, Blain,
Beben, Daniel,
Brett, Michael,
Bruckmayr, Philipp,
Bulliet, Richard W.,
Chrysostomides, Anna,
DeWeese, Devin,
Demichelis, Marco,
Eaton, Richard M.,
Fierro, Maribel,
Frankel, James D.,
Insoll, Timothy,
Kadrić, Sanja,
Krstić, Tijana,
Magnusson, Andrew D.,
Munt, Harry,
Nicola, Bruno De,
Peacock, A. C. S.,
Strathern, Alan,
Thomas, David,
Wain, Alexander,
Wieringa, Edwin P.,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2017
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (544 p.) :; 30 B/W illustrations 10 colour illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1. Introduction: Comparative Perspectives on Islamisation
  • Part I Conversion and Islamisation: Theoretical Approaches
  • 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
  • Part II The Early Islamic and Medieval Middle East
  • 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
  • Part III The Muslim West
  • 10. Conversion of the Berbers to Islam/Islamisation of the Berbers
  • 11. The Islamisation of al-Andalus: Recent Studies and Debates
  • Part IV Sub-Saharan Africa
  • 12. The Oromo and the Historical Process of Islamisation in Ethiopia
  • 13. The Archaeology of Islamisation in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Part V The Balkans
  • 14. The Islamisation of Ottoman Bosnia: Myths and Matters
  • 15. From Shahāda to 'Aqīda: Conversion to Islam, Catechisation and Sunnitisation in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Rumeli
  • Part VI Central Asia
  • 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 Sufi s in the Islamisation of the Turks of Central Asia
  • 18. The Role of the Domestic Sphere in the Islamisation of the Mongols
  • Part VII South Asia
  • 19. Reconsidering 'Conversion to Islam' in Indian History
  • 20. Civilising the Savage: Myth, History and Persianisation in the Early Delhi Courts of South Asia
  • Part VIII Southeast Asia and the Far East
  • 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

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