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Islamisation, comparative perspectives from history, edited by A.C.S. Peacock

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edited by A.C.S. Peacock

comparative perspectives from history

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 AsiaChapter 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