Islamisation

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 study are addressed, with coverage moving from Africa to China and from the seventh century to the start of the colonial period in 1800. Key questions are addressed. What is meant by Islamisation? How far was the spread of Islam as a religion bound up with the spread of Muslim culture? To what extent are Islamisation and conversion parallel processes? How is Islamisation connected to Arabisation? What role do vernacular Muslim languages play in the promotion of Muslim culture? The broad, comparative perspective allows readers to develop a thorough understanding of the process of Islamisation over eleven centuries of its 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 25 chapters of this volume. ; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1. Introduction: Comparative Perspectives on Islamisation, A.C.S. Peacock; I. Conversion and Islamisation: Theoretical approaches; 2. Global Patterns of Ruler Conversion to Islam and the Logic of Empirical Religiosity, Alan Strathern; 3. 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 Islam, David Thomas; 4. The Conversion Curve Revisited, Richard W. Bulliet; II. The early Islamic and Medieval Middle East 5. What did Conversion to Islam mean in Seventh-Century Arabia?, Harry Munt; 6. Zoroastrian Fire Temples and the Islamisation of Sacred Space in Early Islamic Iran, Andrew D. Magnusson; 7. ‘There is no god but God’: Islamisation and Religious Code Switching, eighth to tenth centuries, Anna Chrysostomides; 8. Islamisation in Medieval Anatolia, A.C.S. Peacock; 9. Islamisation in the Southern Levant after the End of Frankish Rule: Some General Considerations and a Short Case Study, Reuven Amitai; III. The Muslim West; 10. Conversion of the Berbers to Islam/Islamisation of the Berbers, Michael Brett; 11. The Islamisation of al-Andalus: Recent Studies and Debates, Maribel Fierro; IV. Sub-Saharan Africa; 12. The Oromo and the Historical Process of Islamisation in Ethiopia, Marco Demichelis; 13. The Archaeology of Islamisation in Sub-Saharan Africa, Timothy Insoll; V. The Balkans; 14. The Islamisation of Ottoman Bosnia: Myths and Matters, Sanja Kadrić; 15. From Shahāda to ‘Aqīda: Conversion to Islam, Catechisation, and Sunnitisation in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Rumeli , Tijana Krstić; VI. Central Asia; 16. Islamisation on the Iranian Periphery: Nasir-i Khusraw and Ismailism in Badakhshan, Daniel Beben; 17. Khwaja Ahmad Yasavi as an Islamising Saint: Rethinking the Role of Sufis in the Islamisation of the Turks of Central Asia, Devin DeWeese; 18. The Role of the Domestic Sphere in the Islamisation of the Mongols, Bruno De Nicola; VII. South Asia; 19. Reconsidering ‘Conversion to Islam’ in Indian History, Richard M. Eaton; 20. Civilising the Savage: Myth, History, and Persianisation in the Early Delhi Courts of South Asia, Blain Auer; VIII. Southeast Asia and the Far East; 21. China and the Rise of Islam on Java, Alexander Wain; 22. The Story of Yusuf and Indonesia’s Islamisation: A Work of Literature Plus, E.P. Wiering; 23. Persian Kings, Arab conquerors, and Malay Islam: Comparative perspectives on the place of Muslim epics in the Islamisation of the Chams, Philipp Bruckmayer 24. Islamisation and Sinicisation: Inversions, Reversions and Alternate Versions of Islam in China, James D. Frankel. ; FiguresAcknowledgementsNotes on Contributors Introduction: Comparative Perspectives on Islamisation, A.C.S. Peacock Conversion and Islamisation: Theoretical approaches Global Patterns of Ruler Conversion to Islam and the Logic of Empirical Religiosity, Alan Strathern 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 Islam, David Thomas The Conversion Curve Revisited, Richard W. Bulliet The early Islamic and Medieval Middle East What did Conversion to Islam mean in Seventh-Century Arabia?, Harry Munt Zoroastrian Fire Temples and the Islamisation of Sacred Space in Early Islamic Iran, Andrew D. Magnusson ‘There is no god but God’: Islamisation and Religious Code Switching, eighth to tenth centuries, Anna Chrysostomides Islamisation in Medieval Anatolia, A.C.S. Peacock Islamisation in the Southern Levant after the End of Frankish Rule: Some General Considerations and a Short Case Study, Reuven Amitai The Muslim West Conversion of the Berbers to Islam/Islamisation of the Berbers, Michael Brett The Islamisation of al-Andalus: Recent Studies and Debates, Maribel Fierro Sub-Saharan Africa The Oromo and the Historical Process of Islamisation in Ethiopia, Marco Demichelis The Archaeology of Islamisation in Sub-Saharan Africa, Timothy Insoll The Balkans The Islamisation of Ottoman Bosnia: Myths and Matters, Sanja Kadrić From Shahāda to ‘Aqīda: Conversion to Islam, Catechisation, and Sunnitisation in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Rumeli, Tijana Krstić Central Asia Islamisation on the Iranian Periphery: Nasir-i Khusraw and Ismailism in Badakhshan, Daniel Beben Khwaja Ahmad Yasavi as an Islamising Saint: Rethinking the Role of Sufis in the Islamisation of the Turks of Central Asia, Devin DeWeese The Role of the Domestic Sphere in the Islamisation of the Mongols, Bruno De Nicola South Asia Reconsidering ‘Conversion to Islam’ in Indian History, Richard M. Eaton Civilising the Savage: Myth, History, and Persianisation in the Early Delhi Courts of South Asia, Blain Auer Southeast Asia and the Far East China and the Rise of Islam on Java, Alexander Wain The Story of Yusuf and Indonesia’s Islamisation: A Work of Literature Plus, E.P. Wiering Persian Kings, Arab conquerors, and Malay Islam: Comparative perspectives on the place of Muslim epics in the Islamisation of the Chams, Philipp Bruckmayer Islamisation and Sinicisation: Inversions, Reversions and Alternate Versions of Islam in China, James D. Frankel