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...the Visigoths, the Vandals, and other Germanic peoples were converted to Arianism before Trinitarian Christianity became domina...
...int Khuwaylid, the first wife of the Prophet ﷺ. Waraqah had converted to Christianity — not the popular pagan religion of his Q...
...uld find — and offered himself as a student and servant. He converted from Zoroastrianism, attached himself to this first bisho...
...with approximately seven thousand men, predominantly Berber converts. The Visigothic king Roderic (Rodrigo) assembled his force...
...nstructed governors throughout the empire to treat non-Arab converts (mawali) with full equality as Muslims, cutting the discri...
...his reform was enormously popular among the non-Arab Muslim converts (mawali) of Persia and Khurasan who had faced continued ta...
...of Khurasan that drew its support from the mawali (non-Arab converts) of Persia and Khurasan — communities that had chafed unde...
...-Junayd ibn Abd al-Rahman and others who reimposed taxes on converts and refused to treat mawali as equal Muslims deepened rese...
...mbushed them in the narrow valley, and many of the recently converted Meccans and some veterans fled in panic. Only the Prophet...
...r Constantine XI died fighting. Mehmed entered the city and converted the Hagia Sophia — then a church — into a mosque. His con...
...romoting Twelver Shia Islam as the state religion, forcibly converting a predominantly Sunni population and executing those who...
... Church of the Holy Sepulchre, fearing future Muslims would convert it into a mosque.
...ruler of the Golden Horde, became the first Mongol ruler to convert to Islam. He allied with the Mamluks against Hulagu and ref...
Ghazan Khan, ruler of the Mongol Ilkhanate in Persia, converted to Islam and made it the state religion. Under Ghazan, th...
... man.' The subsequent Spanish Inquisition forced Muslims to convert or flee.