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Islamisation: Comparative perspectives from History<\/em><\/h1>\n

20-21 March 2015, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK<\/h1>\n

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For further information and to attend please contact iran@st-andrews.ac.uk<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Programme:<\/h2>\n

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Friday 20th<\/sup> March 2015<\/h2>\n

9.00am \u2013 9.30am Registration<\/h2>\n

9.30am \u2013 9.45am Welcome\/Introduction<\/h2>\n

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9.45am \u2013 11.00am Panel 1 – Theoretical Approaches to Islamisation<\/em><\/p>\n

Richard Bulliet<\/strong> (Columbia) \u2013 \u2018The Conversion Curve Revisited\u2019.<\/p>\n

Alan Strathern <\/strong>(Oxford) \u2013 \u2018Ruler Conversions to Monotheism in Comparative Perspective\u2019.<\/p>\n

David Thomas<\/strong> (Birmingham) \u2013 \u2018Conversion from Personal Principle: \u02bfAl\u012b ibn Rabban al-\u1e6cabar\u012b (d. c. 860) and \u02bfAbd All\u0101h al-Turjum\u0101n (d. c. 1430), two converts from Christianity to Islam\u2019.<\/p>\n

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11.00am \u201311.30am Refreshments<\/h2>\n

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11.30am \u2013 12.45pm Panel 2 – The Early Islamic Period<\/em><\/p>\n

Harry Munt (York<\/strong>) \u2018What did Conversion to Islam Mean in 7th-century Arabia?’<\/p>\n

Andrew Magnusson<\/strong> (University of California) \u2018The Islamization of Sacred Space in Post-Conquest Iran: Historiography and the Desecration of Zoroastrian Fire Temples\u2019<\/p>\n

Anna Chrysostomides <\/strong>(Oxford) \u2013 \u2018”There is no god but God”: Conversion, Islamization, and Religious Code Switching, 8th-10th centuries C.E.\u2019<\/p>\n

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12.45pm-2.00pm Lunch<\/h2>\n

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2.00pm \u2013 2.50pm Panel 3 – The Muslim West<\/em><\/p>\n

Michael Brett<\/strong> (SOAS) \u2013 \u2018Conversion of the Berbers to Islam\/Islamisation of the Berbers\u2019<\/p>\n

Maribel Fierro <\/strong>(CCHS, Madrid) \u2013 \u2018The Islamisation of al-Andalus: recent studies and debates\u2019<\/p>\n

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2.50pm \u2013 3.40pm Panel 4 . The Late Medieval Middle East<\/em><\/p>\n

Reuven Amitai (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) <\/strong>\u2013 \u2018Islamisation in Palestine and its Environs in the Post-Frankish Period\u2019<\/p>\n

Tamer el-Leithy (NYU) <\/strong>\u2013 \u2018Converting Cultures in Medieval Cairo: The Deep Grammar of Religious Transformation\u2019<\/p>\n

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3.40pm \u2013 4.10pm Refreshments<\/h2>\n

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4.10pm-5.00pm Panel 5.<\/strong> Anatolia<\/em><\/p>\n

Andrew Peacock<\/strong> (St Andrews)<\/strong> \u2013 <\/em>\u2018Islamisation in Seljuq Anatolia\u2019<\/p>\n

Zeynep Oktay<\/strong> (St Andrews)<\/strong> \u2013 \u2018The Formation of the Doctrines of Bektashism and Alevism: An \u201cIncomplete\u201d Islamisation or a Unique Branch of Islam?\u2019<\/p>\n

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Saturday 21st<\/sup> March 2015<\/h2>\n

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9.00am \u2013 9.15am Registration<\/h2>\n

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9.15am-10.30am Panel 6 – Southeast Asia<\/em><\/p>\n

Edwin Wieringa <\/strong>(Cologne) – \u2018The Promise of Salvation: The Story of Yusuf and Indonesia\u2019s Islamization\u2019<\/p>\n

Philipp Bruckmayr<\/strong> (Vienna) \u2013 \u2018Epics of Islamisation and the Islamisation of Epics: Cases and Observations from Southeast Asia\u2019<\/p>\n

Alexander Wain<\/strong> (Oxford) \u2013 \u2018China and the Rise of Islam in Southeast Asia\u2019.<\/p>\n

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10.30am \u201311.00am Refreshments<\/h2>\n

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11.00am-11.50am Panel 7 \u2013 The Far East<\/em><\/p>\n

James Frankel<\/strong> (Chinese University of Hong Kong) \u2018Islamisation and Sinicisation: Conversion, Reversion and Alternate Versions of Islam in China\u2019.<\/p>\n

Yuka Kadoi<\/strong> (Edinburgh) \u2013 \u2018Orientalism Meets Occidentalism: Material Evidence for the Islamisation of East Asia\u2019.<\/p>\n

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11.50am-12.40pm Panel 8 \u2013<\/strong> Sub-Saharan Africa<\/em><\/p>\n

Timothy Insoll <\/strong>(Manchester) \u2013\u2018The Archaeology of Islamisation in sub-Saharan Africa\u2019<\/p>\n

Marco Demichelis<\/strong> (Yale) – \u2018Habas\u0306ah vs Argobba on the “Acrocoro”. The historicized Islamisation process of the Horn of Africa\u2019.<\/p>\n

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12.40pm-2.00pm Lunch<\/h2>\n

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2.00pm-2.50pm Panel 7 – Iran and Central Asia<\/em><\/p>\n

Daniel Beben <\/strong>(Indiana University Bloomington) \u2013 \u2018Islamization on the Iranian Periphery: Nasir-i Khusraw and Ismailism in Badakhshan\u2019.<\/p>\n

Devin A DeWeese<\/strong> (Indiana University) \u2013 \u2018Khw\u0101ja A\u1e25mad Yasav\u012b as an Islamizing Saint: Rethinking the Role of Sufis in the Islamization of the Central Asian Turks\u2019.<\/p>\n

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2.50pm-3.40pm Panel 8 – <\/strong>India<\/em><\/p>\n

Blain Auer <\/strong>(University of Lausanne) \u2013 \u2018Civilizing the Savage: Persianization in Early Islamic South Asia\u2019.<\/p>\n

Richard Eaton <\/strong>(Arizona) \u2013 \u2018Sorting out Islam and Persianate culture in Indian history\u2019.<\/p>\n

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3.40pm-4.10pm Refreshments<\/h2>\n

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4.10pm \u2013 5.00pm Panel 9 – \u00a0The Balkans<\/em><\/p>\n

Tijana Krsti\u0107 (CEU, Hungary) \u2013 \u2018<\/em><\/strong>Catechetical Strategies: Teaching the Basics of Islam in Ottoman Rumeli, 15th-17th Centuries\u2019.<\/p>\n

Sanja Kadri\u0107 (Ohio State University) <\/strong>\u2018The Islamisation of Ottoman Bosnia: Myths and Matters\u2019.<\/p>\n

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5.00pm-5.15pm Conclusions and Comments<\/p>\n

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