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Islamisation : comparative perspectives from history /

The 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 trajectory of Islamisation and the methodological problems in its st...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Peacock, A. C. S. (Andrew C. S.) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]
Colección:Edinburgh scholarship online.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Chapter 1 Introduction: Comparative Perspectives on Islamisation
  • Part I Conversion and Islamisation: Theoretical Approaches
  • Chapter 2 Global Patterns of Ruler Conversion to Islam and the Logic of Empirical Religiosity
  • Chapter 3 Conversion out of Personal Principle: ʻAli b. Rabban al-Tabari (d. c. 860) and ʻAbdallah al-Tarjuman (d. c. 1430), Two Converts from Christianity to Islam
  • Chapter 4 The Conversion Curve Revisited
  • Part II The Early Islamic and Medieval Middle East
  • Chapter 5 What Did Conversion to Islam Mean in Seventh-Century Arabia?
  • Chapter 6 Zoroastrian Fire Temples and the Islamisation of Sacred Space in Early Islamic Iran
  • Chapter 7 'There Is No God But God': Islamisation and Religious Code-Switching, Eighth to Tenth Centuries
  • Chapter 8 Islamisation in Medieval Anatolia
  • Chapter 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
  • Chapter 10 Conversion of the Berbers to Islam/Islamisation of the Berbers
  • Chapter 11 The Islamisation of al-Andalus: Recent Studies and Debates
  • Part IV Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Chapter 12 The Oromo and the Historical Process of Islamisation in Ethiopia
  • Chapter 13 The Archaeology of Islamisation in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Part V The Balkans
  • Chapter 14 The Islamisation of Ottoman Bosnia: Myths and Matters
  • Chapter 15 From Shahāda to 'Aqīda: Conversion to Islam, Catechisation and Sunnitisation in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Rumeli
  • Part VI Central Asia
  • Chapter 16 Islamisation on the Iranian Periphery: Nasir-i Khusraw and Ismailism in Badakhshan
  • Chapter 17 Khwaja Ahmad Yasavi as an Islamising Saint: Rethinking the Role of Sufi s in the Islamisation of the Turks of Central Asia.
  • Chapter 18 The Role of the Domestic Sphere in the Islamisation of the Mongols
  • Part VII South Asia
  • Chapter 19 Reconsidering 'Conversion to Islam' in Indian History
  • Chapter 20 Civilising the Savage: Myth, History and Persianisation in the Early Delhi Courts of South Asia
  • Part VIII Southeast Asia and the Far East
  • Chapter 21 China and the Rise of Islam on Java
  • Chapter 22 The Story of Yusuf and Indonesia's Islamisation: A Work of Literature Plus
  • Chapter 23 Persian Kings, Arab Conquerors and Malay Islam: Comparative Perspectives on the Place of Muslim Epics in the Islamisation of the Chams
  • Chapter 24 Islamisation and Sinicisation: Inversions, Reversions and Alternate Versions of Islam in China
  • Index.