Contested conversions to Islam narratives of religious change in the early modern Ottoman Empire by Krstic, Tijana

The great Arab conquests how the spread of Islam changed the world we live in by Kennedy, Hugh

Islam translated literature, conversion, and the Arabic cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia by Ricci, Ronit

Table of Contents: “…-- Translation -- On "translation" and its untranslatability -- The Book of Samud: a Javanese literary tradition -- The Ayira Macala: Tamil questions and marvels -- Seribu Masalah: the Malay Book of One Thousand Questions -- Conversion -- Cosmopolitan in translation: Arabic's distant travels -- Conversion to Islam and the Book of One Thousand Questions -- A Jew on Java, a model Malay rabbi, and a Tamil Torah scholar -- The Arabic cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia.…”

Sacrilege versus civility Muslim perspectives on the Satanic Verses affair

The rise of Islam

Table of Contents: “…Re-emergence of Iranian identity after conversion to Islam / Ehsan Yarshater -- Survival of Iranianness / Hugh Kennedy -- The persistent older heritage in the Medieval Iranian lands / C. …”