Conversion to Islam in the Premodern Age: A Sourcebook

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0520296729
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0520296725
• Author: Nimrod Hurvitz, Christian C. Sahner, Uriel Simonsohn, Luke Yarbrough

Conversion to Islam is a phenomenon of immense significance in human history. At the outset of Islamic rule in the seventh century, Muslims constituted a tiny minority in most areas under their control. But by the beginning of the modern period, they formed the majority in most territories from North Africa to Southeast Asia. Across such diverse lands, peoples, and time periods, conversion was a complex, varied phenomenon. Converts lived in a world of overlapping and competing religious, cultural, social, and familial affiliations, and the effects of turning to Islam played out in every aspect of life. Conversion therefore provides a critical lens for world history, magnifying the constantly evolving array of beliefs, practices, and outlooks that constitute Islam around the globe. This groundbreaking collection of texts, translated from sources in a dozen languages from the seventh to the eighteenth centuries, presents the historical process of conversion to Islam in all its variety and unruly detail, through the eyes of both Muslim and non-Muslim observers.

Table of contents:

1. PART ONE. THE PROPHET AND THE EMPIRES OF THE CALIPHS (CA. SEVENTH–TENTH CENTURIES)
2. 1. Conversion in the Qurʾān
3. 2. The Conversion of Khadīja bt. Khuwaylid, by Muḥammad b. Isḥāq
4. 3. On Three Jewish Converts to Islam from the Banū Qurayẓa, by Ibn Hishām
5. 4. Women Converts and Familial Loyalty in the Time of the Prophet, by Muḥammad b. Saʿd
6. 5. Reports on Tribal Delegations to the Prophet, by Muḥammad b. Saʿd
7. 6. The Spread of Islam in Arabia: Expressing Conversion in Poetry, by Selected Early Arabic Poets
8. 7. Early Ḥadīth Touching on Marriage and Conversion, by Ibn Abī Shayba
9. 8. Practicalities and Motivations of Conversion as Seen through Early Ḥadīth and Law, by ʿAbd al
10. 9. Christian Conversions to Islam in the Wake of the Arab Conquest, by Anastasius of Sinai
11. 10. Jacob of Edessa’s Canonical Responsa about Conversion and Islam, by Jacob of Edessa
12. 11. A Multireligious City in Khurāsān Converts to Islam? by Shaykh al-Islām Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allā
13. 12. ʿUmar II and the Treatment of the Mawālī, by Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā b. Jābir al-Balādhurī, Mu
14. 13. Mass Conversion of Christians in Northern Mesopotamia, by Joshua the Stylite of Zuqnīn
15. 14. Conversion and Martyrdom in ʿAbbasid Damascus, Anonymous
16. 15. Three Accounts of Zoroastrian Conversion to Islam, by Muḥammad b. ʿAbdūs al-Jahshiyārī, ʿ
17. 16. Conversion to Islam among the Armenian Elite, by Tʽovma Artsruni
18. 17. Conversion and Martyrdom in Córdoba, by Eulogius of Córdoba
19. 18. A Christian Intellectual Declines to Convert to Islam, by Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq
20. 19. The Religious Commitment of the ʿAbbasid “Slave Soldiers,” by Muḥammad b. Jarīr al-Ṭab
21. 20. Zoroastrian Priests Offer Legal Advice about Conversion, by Ādurfarnbag son of Farroxzād and
22. 21. A Muslim Poet Consoles a Christian Friend Whose Nephew Has Converted to Islam, by al-Qāsim b. Y
23. PART ONE. THE PROPHET AND THE EMPIRES OF THE CALIPHS (CA. SEVENTH–TENTH CENTURIES)
24. 22. A Christian Convert’s Examination of His Former Faith, by al-Ḥasan b. Ayyūb
25. 23. A Monk’s Conversion to Islam, by Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī
26. 24. The Conversion of the Volga Bulgars, by Aḥmad b. Faḍlān b. al-ʿAbbās b. Rāshid b. Ḥamm
27. 25. Notarial Forms for the Conversion of Non-Muslims to Islam, by Ibn al-ʿAṭṭār
28. 26. A Monk Deploring the Assimilation of the Christians to the Hagarenes, attributed to a monk calle
29. 27. The Foundation of Shaykh Abū Isḥāq Kāzarūnī’s Congregational Mosque, by Maḥmūd b. ʿ
30. 28. Conversion to Islam under the Fatimid Caliph al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh, by Michael of Damrū (M
31. 29. Conversion from Motives of Expediency, by Sibṭ Ibn al-Jawzī
32. 30. Conversion, Confession, Prayer, and Apostasy, by Ibn Rushd al-Jadd al-Qurṭubī
33. 31. The Conversion of the Turks, by Michael the Syrian
34. 32. The Tribulations of a Converted Man’s Daughter, by Bar Hebraeus
35. 33. A Polemical Treatise by a Twelfth-Century Jewish Convert to Islam, by Abū Naṣr Samawʾal b. Y
36. 34. Anecdotes about Conversion in Twelfth-Century Syria, by Shams al-Dīn al-Dhahabī, Ibn Rajab, an
37. 35. Selections from Two Armenian Martyrologies, Anonymous
38. 36. A Letter of Maimonides about Conversion and Martyrdom, Attributed to Moshe ben Maimon (Maimonide
39. 37. Apostasy in Jewish Responsa, by the Geonim of Babylonia and Abraham Maimonides
40. 38. Several Documents from the Cairo Geniza Concerning Conversion to Islam, Anonymous
41. 39. Conversion to Islam in the Period of the Crusades, by John of Ibelin, Odo of Deuil, Pope Alexand
42. 40. Conversion Tales in the Vita of Shaykh ʿAbd Allāh al-Yūnīnī, the Lion of Syria, by Aḥmad
43. PART THREE. SULTANS, CONQUERORS, AND TRAVELERS (CA. THIRTEENTH–SIXTEENTH CENTURIES)
44. 41. The Conversion of Medieval Ghāna as Narrated by a Later Ibāḍī Scholar, by Abū al-ʿAbbās
45. 42. Cheraman Perumal and Islam on the Malabar Coast, Anonymous
46. 43. The Conversion Miracles and Life of the Dervish Sarı Saltuq, by Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. al-Sarr
47. 44. The Providential Conversion of the Mongol King of Iran, by Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAlī
48. 45. The Conversion of ʿAbd al-Sayyid, a Damascene Jew, by Quṭb al-Dīn Mūsā b. Muḥammad al-Y
49. 46. An Account of the Conversion of Egypt’s Copts under Duress at the End of the Thirteenth Centur
50. 47. A Syriac Communal Lament over Apostasy, Anonymous
51. 48. Conversion to Islam in South Asia as Transformation of the Heart, by Ḥażrat Khwāja Niẓām
52. 49. A Jurist’s Responses to Questions Regarding the Conversion of One Spouse, by Ibn Qayyim al-Jaw
53. 50. Anselm Turmeda/ʿAbd Allāh al-Tarjumān: A Former Mallorcan Franciscan in the Service of the
54. 51. Three Stories of Conversion from the Life of Sayyid Aḥmad Bashīrī, a Sufi of Timurid Central
55. 52. The Conversion of the Kingdom of Pasai, Indonesia, Anonymous
56. 53. A Tract against “Unbelieving Believers” in West Africa, by Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Karīm al-
57. 54. Conversions to Islam in a Late Medieval Chronicle from Damascus, by Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad b.
58. 55. Documentary Records of Conversions among Ottoman Palace Personnel, by Ottoman Officials and Elit
59. 56. A Conversion Tale from Java, Indonesia, Anonymous
60. 57. The Story of Master She Yunshan’s Conversion in Changzhou, China, by Zhao C

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