... religious conversion Viswanathan Gauri El Tayeb Fatima on “queering ethnicity ” hip hop jihadis DuBois W E B on “double consciousness ” head coverings headscarves Meer Nasar Körperschaft des Öffentlichen Rechts public law corporate body status Brown Malcolm Cesari Jocelyne El Sherbini Marwa...

... Felix and Liliosa martrydom Aurea Ibn Ḥazm Sabbatai Sevi Coope Jessica Córdoba Ibn al Qūṭīya Hybrid religious belief religious conversion early medieval Middle East martyrs Christians Islam Muslims apostates Let us begin this chapter with a story that illustrates how conversion is usually...

... Richard Byzantine monks monasteries George of Mar Saba Graptoi brothers St Catherine’s Monastery Mt Sinai rural clergy resistance of to Muslim rulers hagiography Islam Christianity Christians religious conversion Arab culture martyrologies Islamization Arabization “And that one,” the boy...

...This chapter traces the imperial legal context of both compulsory education and religious conversion and their selective application in Galicia. It presents a background of the stories of the runaway Galician Jewish minor girls. It also considers the new cultural and intellectual opportunities...

... range of social, political, economic, and demographic factors: geopolitics, factors affecting collective solidarity, dynamics of ethnic assimilation/religious conversion, and the interaction between population dynamics and sociopolitical stability. It then translates these into a spectrum...

.... ¹²⁸ Language can be taken as 342 another clue pointing to late conversion: Tamer el-Leithy has suggested that the late conversion of Egypt to Islam was ‘likely a pre-condition’ that allowed it to be Arabized in a way that Iran, which converted to Islam earlier, never was: ‘had significant religious...

... Christianity blasphemy judicial procedures community saints Arabization Islamization Christian Middle East late antiquity Islam religious conversion Christians Christian martyrs The early Islamic period is one of the greatest watersheds in human history. In a matter of a few generations, Muslim...

... religious conversion Middle East martyrs apostasy Anthony al-Qurash ī Islamization As we saw in chapter 1 , conversion during the early Islamic period was not a one-way street from Christianity to Islam. There were many varieties of religious conversion, and no group demonstrates this better than...

... people switch their ethnic identity (a process that may involve linguistic assimilation, religious conversion, etc.). Three models corresponding to these assumptions are presented: the noninteractive model, the autocatalytic model, and the threshold model. The chapter then considers spatial extensions...