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The Islamization of the Holy Land, 634-1800 /
From the seventh century onwards the population of the Near East gradually became Muslim. Nevertheless, other religious communities continued to exist, maintaining an enduring presence in the region, despite being surrounded by Muslims and by people becoming Muslims.00This book argues that the cause...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Leeds :
Arc Humanities Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | From the seventh century onwards the population of the Near East gradually became Muslim. Nevertheless, other religious communities continued to exist, maintaining an enduring presence in the region, despite being surrounded by Muslims and by people becoming Muslims.00This book argues that the causes that led to the conversion of most of the Holy Land's population, as well as the survival of some religious communities, are essentially social and geographic in nature, rather than theological, and that two parallel processes were the main catalysts of Islamization: de-urbanization and urbanization. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (160 pages): illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) |
| ISBN: | 9781802700312 |