Islamisation

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).

• Introduction: Comparative Perspectives on IslamisationA.C.S. PeacockPart I. Conversion and Islamisation: Theoretical approaches1. Global Patterns of Ruler Conversion to Islam and the Logic of Empirical ReligiosityAlan Strathern2. 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 IslamDavid Thomas3. The Conversion Curve RevisitedRichard W. BullietPart II. The Early Islamic and Medieval Middle East4. What did Conversion to Islam mean in 7th-Century Arabia?Harry Munt5. Zoroastrian Fire Temples and the Islamisation of Sacred Space in Early Islamic IranAndrew D. Magnusson6. ‘There is no god but God’: Islamisation and Religious Code Switching, 8th to 10th CenturiesAnna Chrysostomides7. Islamisation in Medieval AnatoliaA.C.S. Peacock8. Islamisation in the Southern Levant after the End of Frankish Rule: Some General Considerations and a Short Case StudyReuven AmitaiPart III. The Muslim West9. Conversion of the Berbers to Islam/Islamisation of the BerbersMichael Brett10. The Islamisation of al-Andalus: Recent Studies and DebatesMaribel FierroPart IV. Sub-Saharan Africa11. The Oromo and the Historical Process of Islamisation in EthiopiaMarco Demichelis12. The Archaeology of Islamisation in Sub-Saharan AfricaTimothy InsollPart V. The Balkans13. The Islamisation of Ottoman Bosnia: Myths and MattersSanja Kadrić14. From Shahāda to ‘Aqīda: Conversion to Islam, Catechisation and Sunnitisation in 16th-Century Ottoman RumeliTijana KrstićPart VI. Central Asia15. Islamisation on the Iranian Periphery: Nasir-i Khusraw and Ismailism in BadakhshanDaniel Beben16. Khwaja Ahmad Yasavi as an Islamising Saint: Rethinking the Role of Sufis in the Islamisation of the Turks of Central AsiaDevin DeWeese17. The Role of the Domestic Sphere in the Islamisation of the MongolsBruno De NicolaPart VII. South Asia18. Reconsidering ‘Conversion to Islam’ in Indian HistoryRichard M. Eaton19. Civilising the Savage: Myth, History and Persianisation in the Early Delhi Courts of South AsiaBlain AuerPart VIII. Southeast Asia and the Far East20. China and the Rise of Islam on JavaAlexander Wain21. The Story of Yusuf and Indonesia’s Islamisation: A Work of Literature PlusE.P. Wiering22. Persian Kings, Arab conquerors and Malay Islam: Comparative Perspectives on the Place of Muslim Epics in the Islamisation of the ChamsPhilipp Bruckmayer23. Islamisation and Sinicisation: Inversions, Reversions and Alternate Versions of Islam in ChinaJames D. Frankel