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Abstract
This study strives to understand Islamicisation from a social point of view, rather than related only to the religious conversion or to a set of specific Islamic material manifestations. A historical context is considered as a case study. The period of the Islamicisation in the Vega of Granada (south east Spain) lasted from the 8th to the 11th centuries CE. The process of social change in this context is described using a combination of historical and archaeological sources, and then insights are made on the relation of such changes with the form of Islam that was adopted. The results point to two distinctive periods that are related with a different form of Islam and therefore, arguably, with two different islamicisations.
Acknowledgements
My colleague William Gilstrap revised my English throughout during a very busy period for him, and made many valuable comments. Thanks are also due to three anonymous reviewers who further improved my text with suggestions and questions. I have done my best to answer them, and I really hope to have the chance to expand my perspective in the future. Mistakes in this paper, of course, remain my own.
