| Edition |
Modern Library edition. |
| Description |
xxxiv, 230 pages : maps ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Modern Library chronicles |
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Modern Library chronicles.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Beginnings. The prophet (570-632) -- The rashidun (632-661) -- The first fitnah. Development. The Umayyads and the second fitnah -- The religious movement -- The last years of the Umayyads (705-750) -- The Abbasids : the high caliphal period (750-935) -- The esoteric movements. Culmination. A new order (935-1258) -- The crusades -- Expansion -- The Mongols (1220-1500). Islam triumphant. Imperial Islam (1500-1700) - The Safavid empire -- The Moghul empire -- The Ottoman empire. Islam agonistes. The arrival of the west (1750-2000) -- What is a modern Muslim state? -- Fundamentalism -- Muslims in a minority -- The way forward. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 12.0 12.0 68635. |
| Subject |
Islam -- History.
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Islamic Empire -- History.
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| ISBN |
081296618X paperback |
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