Mass Conversions to Christianity and Islam, 800–1100

Mass Conversions to Christianity and Islam, 800–1100

Author: Tsvetelin Stepanov

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2024-01-01

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 3031344294

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This book explores the widespread mass conversions to Christianity and Islam that took place in Europe and Asia in the ninth to eleventh centuries. Taking a comparative perspective, contributors explore the processes at work in these conversions. Focusing on Christianity and Islam, it contrasts religious conversion in the period with earlier conversions, including those of Manichaeism in central Asia; Buddhism in east Asia; and Judaism in Khazaria, exploring why conversions to Christianity and Islam led to centralized political structures.


The Future of the Global Church

The Future of the Global Church

Author: Patrick Johnstone

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2014-01-17

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0830856951

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In The Future of the Global Church, Patrick Johnstone, author of six editions of the phenomenal prayer guide, Operation World, draws on his fifty years experience to present a breathtaking, full-color graphical and textual overview of the past, present and possible future of the church around the world.


Social Relations in Ottoman Diyarbekir, 1870-1915

Social Relations in Ottoman Diyarbekir, 1870-1915

Author: Joost Jongerden

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-08-03

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9004225188

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Social Relations in Ottoman Diyarbekir, 1870-1915, offers new perspectives on the political conflicts and violent events that shaped the history of the region.


Atlas of World History

Atlas of World History

Author: Patrick Karl O'Brien

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 019521921X

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Synthesizing exceptional cartography and impeccable scholarship, this edition traces 12,000 years of history with 450 maps and over 200,000 words of text. 200 illustrations.


Conversion to Islam in the Premodern Age

Conversion to Islam in the Premodern Age

Author: Nimrod Hurvitz

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2020-12-15

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 0520296729

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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.


The Vanishing

The Vanishing

Author: Janine di Giovanni

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Published: 2021-10-05

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1541756681

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The Vanishing reveals the plight and possible extinction of Christian communities across Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Palestine after 2,000 years in their historical homeland. Some of the countries that first nurtured and characterized Christianity - along the North African Coast, on the Euphrates and across the Middle East and Arabia - are the ones in which it is likely to first go extinct. Christians are already vanishing. We are past the tipping point, now tilted toward the end of Christianity in its historical homeland. Christians have fled the lands where their prophets wandered, where Jesus Christ preached, where the great Doctors and hierarchs of the early church established the doctrinal norms that would last millennia. From Syria to Egypt, the cities of northern Iraq to the Gaza Strip, ancient communities, the birthplaces of prophets and saints, are losing any living connection to the religion that once was such a characteristic feature of their social and cultural lives. In The Vanishing, Janine di Giovanni has combined astonishing journalistic work to discover the last traces of small, hardy communities that have become wisely fearful of outsiders and where ancient rituals are quietly preserved amid 360 degree threats. Di Giovanni's riveting personal stories and her conception of faith and hope are intertwined throughout the chapters. The book is a unique act of pre-archeology: the last chance to visit the living religion before all that will be left are the stones of the past.