Conversion to Islam in the medieval period: an essay in.

Ira M. Lapidus; Richard W. Bulliet. Conversion to Islam in the Medieval Period: An Essay in Quantitative History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1979. Pp.

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This book attempts to elucidate the complex relationship between conversion and the development of Islamic society by first establishing a hypothetical timetable of conversion for medieval Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Tunesia, Syria and Spain, and then comparing those timetables with the course of historical development in each area. The findings for the.

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The Columbia History of the Twentieth Century, editor, New York: Columbia University Press, 1998 (translations into Chinese, Polish, and Croatian). Islam: The View from the Edge, Columbia University Press, 1993. Conversion to Islam in the Medieval Period: An Essay in Quantitative History, Harvard University Press, 1979, translation in Persian.

The transformation of Islam into one of the great civilisations of the world has been the subject of many studies in recent decades. As Islam spread beyond the Arabian peninsula into the neighbouring regions of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Egypt and beyond to North Africa and Central Asia, it became enriched by the intellectual contributions of a multitude of individuals, communities.

Bulliet, Richard W. Conversion to Islam in the Medieval Period: An Essay in Quantitative History. Cambridge, Mass., 1979. (A seminal, much-disputed work which attempts to estimate the statistical chronology of conversions based on the date that Islamic names appear in genealogies.).

Several of his books focus on Iran but deal also with the larger Muslim world, including The Patricians of Nishapur: a Study in Medieval Islamic History (1972), Conversion to Islam in the Medieval Period: An Essay in Quantitative History (1979), and Islam: the View from the Edge (1994).

On conversion timelines, see Richard Bulliett's Conversion to Islam in the Medieval Period: An Essay in Quantitative History. It's methodology has been critiqued but is the basis for most of the contemporary scholarship on when and where people converted to Islam.

The Spread of Islam. Sources. A Gradual Process.It is often wrongly imagined that as soon as any country came under the political rule of Muslims or a Muslim state, a majority, or even all, of its population started professing Islam as their personal religion, whether from choice or compulsion.

Dr. Bulliet is the author of fifteen books, including Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran: A Moment in World History (2009), Islam: The View from the Edge (1993), and Conversion to Islam in the Medieval Period: An Essay in Quantitative History (1979) to name a few. One of his most well known works, The Case for Islamo-Christian.