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Mass Conversions to Christianity and Islam, 800–1100

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Editors:
  1. Tsvetelin Stepanov

    1. St. Kliment Ohridski University, Sofia, Bulgaria

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  2. Osman Karatay

    1. Ege University, Izmir, Türkiye

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  • Explores mass conversions to Christianity and Islam in the Central Middle Ages

  • Compares conversions in the period to earlier medieval examples

  • Adopts a comparative framework and approaches a transnational outlook

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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.

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Osman Karatay, Tsvetelin Stepanov
    Pages 1-25

  3. Approaching Salvation: Early Process of Christianisation in Viking-Age Denmark and Sweden

    • Władysław Duczko
    Pages 27-44

  4. Christianisations in Scandinavia

    • Henrik Janson
    Pages 45-76

  5. Bruno of Querfurt and the Practice of Mission

    • Ian Wood
    Pages 77-99

  6. Who Converted the Poles?

    • Przemysław Urbańczyk
    Pages 101-111

  7. Great Moravia: The Uneasy Beginnings of Slavic Christendom

    • Alexandar Nikolov
    Pages 113-135

  8. The Christianisation of the Kingdom of Hungary

    • Nora Berend
    Pages 137-164

  9. The Choice of Faith in Early Medieval Eastern Europe: Individual and Mass Conversion

    • Vladimir Petrukhin
    Pages 165-188

  10. The Times of St. Tsar Boris-Michael of Bulgaria (852–889; † 907): Between the Real Historical Facts of the Ninth Century and the ‘Facts’ of Selective Memory

    • Tsvetelin Stepanov
    Pages 189-213

  11. The Conversion of the Volga Bulgars to Islam

    • István Zimonyi
    Pages 215-236

  12. Islamization of the Turks: A Process of Mental Change

    • Osman Karatay
    Pages 237-264

  13. The Establishment of Islam in Central Asia: Geo-Cultural Patterns and Geographical Realities

    • Erkan Göksu
    Pages 265-300

  14. Islam in India: Acceleration Under the Ghaznavids (Tenth to Eleventh Centuries)

    • M. Hanefi Palabıyık
    Pages 301-321

  15. In Partibus Fidelium (Postscript: Conversion as History)

    • Vladimir Gradev
    Pages 323-332

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 333-352
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Editors and Affiliations

  • St. Kliment Ohridski University, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Tsvetelin Stepanov

  • Ege University, Izmir, Türkiye

    Osman Karatay

About the editors

Tsvetelin Stepanov is Professor at St. Kliment Ohridski University in Sofia, Bulgaria.

​Osman Karatay is Professor in History at the Ege University in Izmir, Turkey. 




Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mass Conversions to Christianity and Islam, 800–1100

  • Editors: Tsvetelin Stepanov, Osman Karatay

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34429-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-34428-2Published: 02 January 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-34431-2Due: 16 January 2025

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-34429-9Published: 01 January 2024

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 352

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of Medieval Europe, History of Religion, Asian History, Cultural History, African History

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