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List of Illustrations | |
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Preface | |
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Note on Transliteration | |
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Introduction: The Concept and Unity of Islamic History | |
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Europe and Islam: The History of a Science | |
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Early studies of Islam in the context of religious war | |
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From confrontation to co-existence | |
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The beginnings of Islamic studies | |
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The rise of Oriental philology | |
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'Historicism' and the opening up of the sources | |
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Islam as a Held of scholarship | |
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Research in Islam in East and West: encounter and conflict | |
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Islam: Religion and Legal System | |
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The Revelation | |
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The development of religious doctrine | |
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Islamic history and the history of Islam | |
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From civil wars to schism | |
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Between theology and tradition: the development of dogma | |
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Asceticism, mysticism and the religious orders | |
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Law and government | |
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The foundation of Islamic law | |
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Legislation and the administration of justice | |
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The classical schools of law | |
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The state in die light of legal theory | |
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The Islamic World: Society and Economy | |
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Arabia: landscape arid history at the beginning of Islam | |
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Bedouins and sedentary peoples | |
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Apicultural economy, taxation and land tenure | |
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Urban society and economy | |
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A Regional View of Islamic History | |
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The Arabian peninsula | |
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Syria and Palestine | |
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Iraq | |
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The West | |
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Spain | |
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North Africa | |
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Egypt | |
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Iran | |
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Anatolia | |
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The further lands of Islam | |
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Periods of Islamic History | |
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Arabia before Islam (until c.610 ad) | |
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Muhammad: the mission of the Arab Prophet and the first Islamic state (c.610-32) | |
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The caliphate until the end of the Umayyads (632-750) | |
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The period of the Orthodox' caliphs (al-Rashidun, 632-61): the emergence of the Arab state | |
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The caliphate of the Umayyads (661-750) | |
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The caliphate of the 'Abbasids and its successor states from 749-c. 1050 | |
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The first century of the 'Abbasids (749-847) | |
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The decline of the caliphate (9th-10th centuries) | |
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The rise of local autonomous states and the successor states of the caliphal empire (c.850-c.1055) | |
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The Seljuq period (c. 1055-c. 1258) | |
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The Seljuqs (Iran and Iraq, 11th-12th centuries; in Anatolia until the 13th century) | |
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Syria and Egypt under the Atabegs and Ayyubids; the Islamic confrontation with the Crusaders; the final phase of the 'Abbasid caliphate (12th-mid-13th centuries) | |
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Almoravids and Almohads in North Africa and Spain (1056-1269) | |
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The Mongol period. From the conquest of Baghdad by the Mongols to the establishment of the Ottoman state in the Near East (1258-1517) | |
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The Mongol invasion and the Mongol period in the Islamic east (13th-15th centuries) | |
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The Mamluks in Egypt and Syria (1250-1517) The emergence of the Ottoman empire | |
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The west under the last Berber dynasties (mid-13th-mid-16th centuries) | |
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The Ottoman period (16th-18th centuries) | |
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The Ottoman empire | |
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North Africa | |
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Iran from the Safavid period | |
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India under the Mughal emperors (1526-1858) | |
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The emergence of national states Westernisation and reform (from the beginning of the 19th century) | |
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Appendix: Languages, Names and the Calendar of Islam | |
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Language and script | |
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Arabic: the language of Islam | |
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The other languages of Islam | |
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The Arabic script | |
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Names and titles | |
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Islamic personal names | |
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The titles of rulers and honorific tides | |
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The Islamic calendar | |
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Chronological Table | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |