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Author Hill, Fred James.

Title A history of the Islamic world / Fred James Hill & Nicholas Awde.

Publication Info. New York : Hippocrene Books, [2003]
©2003

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 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  909.0976 H55    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  909.0976 H55    Check Shelf
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  909 HIL    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  909.09767 HILL    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  909.097 H55    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  909.097 HIL    Check Shelf
Description 221 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Series Illustrated histories (Hippocrene Books (Firm))
Illustrated histories (Hippocrene Books (Firm))
Note Includes index.
Contents The rise of Islam. Cradle of Islam ; The Arab conquests and the age of empire ; The Abbasids and the rise of Baghdad ; Al-Andalus: Islam in Spain ; The mysticism of the Sufis ; The Crusades ; From Mongols to Mamluks ; Islam on the periphery: travels in Africa and Asia -- The age of the three great Muslim empires. The Ottomans ; The Safavids and Shi'ism: Persia reunified ; The Mughals in India -- Islam in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Creation of the nation-states ; Islam and the West: facing difficult times ; Afterword. The challenge of the future -- Key dates in Islamic history ; Key figures and dynasties in Islamic history ; Glossary of Islamic terms.
Subject Islamic countries -- History.
Islamic civilization.
Islam -- 20th century.
Added Author Awde, Nicholas.
ISBN 0781810159
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