Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS iii
3. List of Figures and Tables vi
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Notes on Contributors ix
6. 1. Introduction: Comparative Perspectives on Islamisation 1
7. Part I Conversion and Islamisation: Theoretical Approaches
8. 2. Global Patterns of Ruler Conversion to Islam and the Logic of Empirical Religiosity 21
9. 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 56
10. 4. The Conversion Curve Revisited 69
11. Part II The Early Islamic and Medieval Middle East
12. 5. What Did Conversion to Islam Mean in Seventh-Century Arabia? 83
13. 6. Zoroastrian Fire Temples and the Islamisation of Sacred Space in Early Islamic Iran 102
14. 7. ‘There Is No God But God’: Islamisation and Religious Code-Switching, Eighth to Tenth Centuries 118
15. 8. Islamisation in Medieval Anatolia 134
16. 9. Islamisation in the Southern Levant after the End of Frankish Rule: Some General Considerations and a Short Case Study 156
17. Part III The Muslim West
18. 10. Conversion of the Berbers to Islam/Islamisation of the Berbers 189
19. 11. The Islamisation of al-Andalus: Recent Studies and Debates 199
20. Part IV Sub-Saharan Africa
21. 12. The Oromo and the Historical Process of Islamisation in Ethiopia 223
22. 13. The Archaeology of Islamisation in Sub-Saharan Africa 244
23. Part V The Balkans
24. 14. The Islamisation of Ottoman Bosnia: Myths and Matters 277
25. 15. From Shahāda to ‘Aqīda: Conversion to Islam, Catechisation and Sunnitisation in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Rumeli 296
26. Part VI Central Asia
27. 16. Islamisation on the Iranian Periphery: Nasir-i Khusraw and Ismailism in Badakhshan 317
28. 17. Khwaja Ahmad Yasavi as an Islamising Saint: Rethinking the Role of Sufi s in the Islamisation of the Turks of Central Asia 336
29. 18. The Role of the Domestic Sphere in the Islamisation of the Mongols 353
30. Part VII South Asia
31. 19. Reconsidering ‘Conversion to Islam’ in Indian History 379
32. 20. Civilising the Savage: Myth, History and Persianisation in the Early Delhi Courts of South Asia 393
33. Part VIII Southeast Asia and the Far East
34. 21. China and the Rise of Islam on Java 419
35. 22. The Story of Yusuf and Indonesia’s Islamisation: A Work of Literature Plus 444
36. 23. Persian Kings, Arab Conquerors and Malay Islam: Comparative Perspectives on the Place of Muslim Epics in the Islamisation of the Chams 472
37. 24. Islamisation and Sinicisation: Inversions, Reversions and Alternate Versions of Islam in China 495
38. Index 515