Venture of Islam, Volume 2 The Expansion of Islam in the Middle Periods

Name: Venture of Islam, Volume 2 The Expansion of Islam in the Middle Periods
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ISBN: 9780226346847

ISBN-10: 0226346846

ISBN-13: 9780226346847

Edition: 1977

Authors: Marshall G. S. Hodgson, Marshall G. S. Hodgson

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The Venture of Islamhas been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early 1975. In this three-volume study, illustrated with charts and maps, Hodgson traces and interprets the historical development of Islamic civilization from before the birth of Muhammad to the middle of the twentieth century. This work grew out of the famous course on Islamic civilization that Hodgson created and taught for many years at the University of Chicago. In the second work of this three-volume set, Hodgson investigates the establishment of an international Islamic civilization through about 1500. This includes a theoretical discussion of cultural patterning in the Islamic world and…

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List price: $44.00
Copyright year: 1977
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2/15/1977
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 618
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.15" tall
Weight: 1.958
Language: English



List of Charts


List of Maps



The Establishment of an International Civilization



Prologue to Book Three



The Formation of the International Political Order, 945-1118



The Social Order: Mercantile Interests, Military Power, Liberty



Maturity and Dialogue among the Intellectual Traditions, c. 945-1111



The Sufism of the Tariqah Orders, c. 945-1273



The Victory of the New Sunni Internationalism, 1118-1258



The Bloom of Persian Literary Culture and Its Times, c. 1111-1274



Cultural Patterning in Islamdom and the Occident



Crisis and Renewal: The Age of Mongol Prestige Prologue to Book Four



After the Mongol Irruption: Politics and Society, 1259-1405



Conservation and Courtliness in the Intellectual Traditions, c. 1258-1503



The Visual Arts in an Islamic Setting, c. 1258-1503



The Expansion of Islam, c. 1258-1503


A Selective Bibliography for Further Reading


Glossary of Selected Terms and Names


Index to Volume II