Islamisation : comparative perspectives from history / edited by A.C.S. Peacock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peacock, A. C. S., Author.

Contributor:

Peacock, A. C. S. (Andrew C. S.), editor.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Conversion--History.

Islam.

Islam--History.

Islam and state.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (545 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017].

Summary:

The spread of Islam and the process of Islamisation (meaning both conversion to Islam and the adoption of Muslim culture) is explored in the 25 chapters of this volume.

Contents:

Introduction : comparative perspectives on Islamisation / A.C.S. Peacock

Part I. 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

Part II. The early Islamic and medieval middle east. What did conversion to Islam mean in seventh-century Arabia? / Harry Munt ; Zoroastrian fire temples and the Islamisationof 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

Part III. 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

Part IV. Sub-Saharan Africa. The Oromo and the historical process of Islamisation in Ethiopia / Marco Demichelis ; The archaeology of Islamisation in Sub-Saharan Africa / Timothey Insoll

Part V. The Balkans. The Islamisation of Ottoman Bosnia : myths and matters / Sanja Kadric ; From Shahada to 'Aqida : conversion to Islam, catechisation and Sunnitisation in sixteen-century Ottoman Rumeli / Tijana Krstic

Part VI. 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

Part VII. 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

Part VIII. 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 / Edwin P. Wieringa ; Persian kings, Arab conquerors and Malay Islam : comparative perspectives on the place of Muslim epics in the Islamisation of the Chams / Philipp Bruckmayr ; Islamisation and Sinicisation : inversions, reversions and alternate versions of Islam in China / James D. Frankel.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 10, 2021).

ISBN:

1-4744-3498-3

1-4744-1714-0

1-4744-1713-2