Swimming Against the Current: Conversion of Muslims to Christianity in the Early Islamic Period
Document Type : pajoohesh
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10.22081/jap.2022.73994
Abstract
This article deals with the conversion of Muslims to Christianity by using a large number of sources of the Sirah in Arabic, Armenian, Georgian, Greek and Latin languages and tries to show by examining the lives of Christian martyrs why Muslims in the first or second centuries after the conquests led to this surprising transition from "mosque to church". Many studies on conversion to Islam have paid more attention to theological issues and wanted to show why many people in the Middle East converted to Christianity at the end of the Crusades. This article, in contrast to them, seeks to show why Islamization—especially during the Umayyad and early Abbasid periods—could be highly haphazard, even erratic, when Muslims formed a minority in many areas under their control.
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