| Description |
xii, 749 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 697-707) and index. |
| Contents |
Muhammad and the caliphate : political history of the Islamic empire up to the Mongol conquest / Fred M. Donner -- Fruit of the tree of knowledge : the relationship between faith and practice in Islam / Vincent J. Cornell -- Law and society : the interplay of revelation and reason in the Shariah / Mohammad Hashim Kamali -- Science, medicine, and technology : the making of a scientific culture / Ahmad Dallal -- Art and architecture : themes and variations / Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom -- Philosophy and theology : from the eighth century C.E. to the present / Majid Fakhry -- Islam and Christendom : historical, cultural, and religious interaction from the seventh to the fifteenth centuries / Jane I. Smith -- Sultanates and gunpowder empires : the Middle East / Ira M. Lapidus -- The eastward journey of Muslim kingship : Islam in South and Southeast Asia / Bruce B. Lawrence -- Central Asia and China : transnationalization, Islamization, and ethnicization / Dru C. Gladney -- Islam in Africa to 1800 : merchants, chiefs, and saints / Nehemia Levtzion -- Foundations for renewal and reform : Islamic movements in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / John Obert Voll -- European colonialism and the emergence of modern Muslim states / S.V.R. Nasr -- The globalization of Islam : the return of Muslims to the West / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- Contemporary Islam : reformation or revolution? / John L. Esposito. |
| Summary |
"John L. Esposito, editor of the four-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, has gathered together sixteen leading scholars, both Muslim and non-Muslim, to examine the origins and historical development of Islam - its faith, community, institutions, sciences, and arts." "Written for the general reader but also appealing to specialists, The Oxford History of Islam offers the best of that recent scholarship, presented in a readable style and complemented by a rich variety of illustrations."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject |
Islam -- History.
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| Added Author |
Esposito, John L.
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| Added Title |
History of Islam |
| ISBN |
0195107993 alkaline paper |
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9780195107999 alkaline paper |
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