2020•American Journal of Islam and SocietyOpen access

Christian Martyrs Under Islam: Religious Violence and the Making of the Muslim World by Christian C. Sahner

Tayyaba Rafiq

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The study of Christian martyrdom in the early Islamic world can be situated within the wider study of the Islamization of the Middle East, and by extension, Muslim-Christian relations. Similar works pertaining to thisBook Reviews 153 field are Richard Bulliet’s Conversion to Islam in the Medieval Period: An Essay in Quantitative History (1979) and Fred Donner’s Narratives of Islamic Origins: The Beginnings of Islamic Historical Writing (1998). To read the full book review, download the PDF file on the right.

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Key concepts: Islam, Islamization, Religious studies, Period (music), Narrative, Islamic studies, Extension (predicate logic), Situated