Matthew J. Kuiper is Assistant Professor of Religion at Hope College, and author of Da’wa and Other Religions: Indian Muslims and the Modern Resurgence of Global Islamic Activism (Routledge, 2018).

• List of Figures; List of Boxes; Dedication; Preface and Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration and Dates; Introduction; Part I: The Pre-Modern Missionary History of Islam; 1. The First Invitation to Islam: Da‘wa in the Qur’an; 2. The Best Inviter: Da‘wa in Prophetic Sira and Hadith; 3. Da‘wa after the Prophet, c. 632-1100 CE; 4. Da‘wa in Medieval and Early Modern Islamic History, c. 1100-1700 CE; Part II: The Modern Missionary History of Islam; Introduction to Part II; 5. Contextualising Modern Da‘wa, Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries; 6.The First Phase of Modern Da‘wa, c. 1850-1950: A Survey; 7. The Second Phase of Modern Da‘wa, c. 1950-2020: A Survey; Bibliography; Index.

Kuiper presents a carefully contextualized survey of the complex history of ‘calling’ others to Islam.　From deliberate proselytization to almost incidental Islamization, Kuiper shows the variety of mechanisms by which Islam became a global religion, while highlighting important distinctions between the spread of Islam in medieval times and the modern emergence of formal missionary movements. This is a lucid, judicious and much-needed overview of a key dimension of Muslim religious history.

Matthew J. Kuiper is Assistant Professor of Religion at Hope College, and author of Da’wa and Other Religions: Indian Muslims and the Modern Resurgence of Global Islamic Activism (Routledge, 2018).

• List of Figures; List of Boxes; Dedication; Preface and Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration and Dates; Introduction; Part I: The Pre-Modern Missionary History of Islam; 1. The First Invitation to Islam: Da‘wa in the Qur’an; 2. The Best Inviter: Da‘wa in Prophetic Sira and Hadith; 3. Da‘wa after the Prophet, c. 632-1100 CE; 4. Da‘wa in Medieval and Early Modern Islamic History, c. 1100-1700 CE; Part II: The Modern Missionary History of Islam; Introduction to Part II; 5. Contextualising Modern Da‘wa, Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries; 6.The First Phase of Modern Da‘wa, c. 1850-1950: A Survey; 7. The Second Phase of Modern Da‘wa, c. 1950-2020: A Survey; Bibliography; Index.

Kuiper presents a carefully contextualized survey of the complex history of ‘calling’ others to Islam.　From deliberate proselytization to almost incidental Islamization, Kuiper shows the variety of mechanisms by which Islam became a global religion, while highlighting important distinctions between the spread of Islam in medieval times and the modern emergence of formal missionary movements. This is a lucid, judicious and much-needed overview of a key dimension of Muslim religious history.

Matthew J. Kuiper is Assistant Professor of Religion at Hope College, and author of Da’wa and Other Religions: Indian Muslims and the Modern Resurgence of Global Islamic Activism (Routledge, 2018).

• List of Figures; List of Boxes; Dedication; Preface and Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration and Dates; Introduction; Part I: The Pre-Modern Missionary History of Islam; 1. The First Invitation to Islam: Da‘wa in the Qur’an; 2. The Best Inviter: Da‘wa in Prophetic Sira and Hadith; 3. Da‘wa after the Prophet, c. 632-1100 CE; 4. Da‘wa in Medieval and Early Modern Islamic History, c. 1100-1700 CE; Part II: The Modern Missionary History of Islam; Introduction to Part II; 5. Contextualising Modern Da‘wa, Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries; 6.The First Phase of Modern Da‘wa, c. 1850-1950: A Survey; 7. The Second Phase of Modern Da‘wa, c. 1950-2020: A Survey; Bibliography; Index.

Kuiper presents a carefully contextualized survey of the complex history of ‘calling’ others to Islam.　From deliberate proselytization to almost incidental Islamization, Kuiper shows the variety of mechanisms by which Islam became a global religion, while highlighting important distinctions between the spread of Islam in medieval times and the modern emergence of formal missionary movements. This is a lucid, judicious and much-needed overview of a key dimension of Muslim religious history.