This volume offers a comparative approach to understanding the spread of Muslim culture in medieval Anatolia. It aims to reassess work in the field since the 1971 classic by Speros Vryonis, The Decline of Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization which treats the process of transformation from a Byzantinist perspective. Essays examine

Andrew Peacock is Reader in Middle Eastern Studies in the School of History, University of St Andrews, UK and is Principal Investigator of the European Research Council-funded research project 'The Islamisation of Anatolia, c. 1000-1500'.

Bruno De Nicola is Research Fellow in Middle Eastern Studies in the School of History, University of St Andrews, UK.

Part 1 Christian Experiences of Muslim Rule: Christians in the Middle East, 600-1000: conquest, competition and conversion. Christian views of Islam in early Seljuq Anatolia: perceptions and reactions. Patterns of Armeno-Muslim interchange on the Armenian plateau in the interstice between Byzantine and Ottoman hegemony. The rape of Anatolia, Scott Redford Liquid frontiers: a relational analysis of maritime Asia Minor as a religious contact zone in the 13th-15th centuries. The Greek Orthodox communities of Nicaea and Ephesus under Turkish rule in the 14th century: a new reading of old sources. Part 2 Artistic and Intellectual Encounters between Islam and Christianity: Byzantine appropriation of the Orient: notes on its principles and patterns. Other encounters: popular belief and cultural convergence in Anatolia and the Caucasus. 13th-century 'Byzantine' art in Cappadocia and the question of Greek painters at the Seljuq court. An interfaith polemic of medieval Anatolia: Qadii Burha Burhan al-Anawi" on the Armenians and their heresies. 'What does the clapper say?' An interfaith discourse on the Christian call to prayer by Adisho bar Brikha. Part 3 The Formation of Islamic Society in Anatolia: Sunni Orthodox vs Shiite heterodox?: a reappraisal of Islamic piety in medieval Anatolia. Mevlevi-Bektashi rivalries and the Islamisation of the public space in late Seljuq Anatolia. Battling Kufr (unbelief) in the land of infidels: Gulsehri's Turkish adaptation of Attar's Manatiq al-tayr. Islamisation through the lens of the Saltuk-name.