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