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IslamisationComparative Perspectives from History

Edited by A. C. S. Peacock

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Examines Islamisation as both a cultural and religious phenomenon over 11 centuries of its history

  • Divided into 8 sections: Conversion and Islamisation: Theoretical Approaches; The Early Islamic and Medieval Middle East; The Muslim West; Sub-Saharan Africa; The Balkans; Central Asia; South Asia; Southeast Asia and the Far East
  • Ambitious in scope: covers every significant region of the Muslim world over 11 centuries
  • Draws from a variety of disciplines including art, archaeology, literature and history
  • Includes 14 maps and 17 figures

In 24 chapters, this volume explores the spread of Islam and the process of Islamisation: both conversion to Islam and the adoption of Muslim culture.

Taking a broad, comparative perspective, the volume addresses key questions. What is meant by Islamisation? How far was the spread of Islam as a religion bound up with the spread of Muslim culture? To what extent are Islamisation and conversion parallel processes? How is Islamisation connected to Arabisation? What role do vernacular Muslim languages play in the promotion of Muslim culture?

Discover both the historical trajectory of Islamisation and the methodological problems in its study, with coverage moving from Africa to China and from the 7th century to the start of the colonial period in 1800.

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Contributors

  • Reuven Amitai, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Blain Auer, University of Lausanne
  • Daniel Beben, Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan
  • Michael Brett, SOAS, University of London
  • Philipp Bruckmayr, University of Vienna
  • Richard W. Bulliet, Columbia University
  • Anna Chrysostomides, University of Oxford
  • Marco Demichelis, Catholic University of Milan
  • Bruno De Nicola, University of St. Andrews
  • Devin DeWeese, Indiana University
  • Richard Eaton, University of Arizona
  • Maribel Fierro, Institute for the Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean
  • James D. Frankel, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Timothy Insoll, University of Exeter
  • Sanja Kadrić, Ohio State University
  • Tijana Krstić, Central European University in Budapest
  • Andrew D. Magnusson, University of Central Oklahoma
  • Harry Munt, University of York
  • Andrew Peacock, University of St Andrews
  • Alan Strathern, University of Oxford
  • David Thomas, University of Birmingham
  • Alexander Wain, The International Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies (IAIS) Malaysia
  • Edwin P. Wieringa, University of Cologne
Table of contents

Introduction: Comparative Perspectives on Islamisation
A.C.S. Peacock

Part I. Conversion and Islamisation: Theoretical approaches
1. Global Patterns of Ruler Conversion to Islam and the Logic of Empirical Religiosity
Alan Strathern
2. 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
3. The Conversion Curve Revisited
Richard W. Bulliet

Part II. The Early Islamic and Medieval Middle East
4. What did Conversion to Islam mean in 7th-Century Arabia?
Harry Munt
5. Zoroastrian Fire Temples and the Islamisation of Sacred Space in Early Islamic Iran
Andrew D. Magnusson
6. ‘There is no god but God’: Islamisation and Religious Code Switching, 8th to 10th Centuries
Anna Chrysostomides
7. Islamisation in Medieval Anatolia
A.C.S. Peacock
8. 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
9. Conversion of the Berbers to Islam/Islamisation of the Berbers
Michael Brett
10. The Islamisation of al-Andalus: Recent Studies and Debates
Maribel Fierro

Part IV. Sub-Saharan Africa
11. The Oromo and the Historical Process of Islamisation in Ethiopia
Marco Demichelis
12. The Archaeology of Islamisation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Timothy Insoll

Part V. The Balkans
13. The Islamisation of Ottoman Bosnia: Myths and Matters
Sanja Kadrić
14. From Shahāda to ‘Aqīda: Conversion to Islam, Catechisation and Sunnitisation in 16th-Century Ottoman Rumeli
Tijana Krstić

Part VI. Central Asia
15. Islamisation on the Iranian Periphery: Nasir-i Khusraw and Ismailism in Badakhshan
Daniel Beben
16. Khwaja Ahmad Yasavi as an Islamising Saint: Rethinking the Role of Sufis in the Islamisation of the Turks of Central Asia
Devin DeWeese
17. The Role of the Domestic Sphere in the Islamisation of the Mongols
Bruno De Nicola

Part VII. South Asia
18. Reconsidering ‘Conversion to Islam’ in Indian History
Richard M. Eaton
19. 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
20. China and the Rise of Islam on Java
Alexander Wain
21. The Story of Yusuf and Indonesia’s Islamisation: A Work of Literature Plus
E.P. Wiering
22. Persian Kings, Arab conquerors and Malay Islam: Comparative Perspectives on the Place of Muslim Epics in the Islamisation of the Chams
Philipp Bruckmayer
23. Islamisation and Sinicisation: Inversions, Reversions and Alternate Versions of Islam in China
James D. Frankel

About the author

A. C. S. Peacock

A.C.S. Peacock is Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic History at the University of St Andrews, and holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge. His previous publications include The Great Seljuk Empire (2015) and Early Seljuq History (2010).