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Islamic Societies to the Nineteenth Century A Global History

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ISBN-10: 0521732980

ISBN-13: 9780521732987

Edition: 2012

Authors: Ira M. Lapidus

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List price: $56.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/22/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 788
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 1.57" tall
Weight: 2.244
Language: English

Introduction to the history of Islamic societies
The Beginnings of Islamic Civilizations, The Middle East from c.600 to c.1000
Middle Eastern societies before Islam
Historians and the sources
Arabia
Muhammad: preaching, community, and state formation
Introduction
The Arab-Muslim conquests and the socio-economic bases of empire
Regional developments: economic and social changes
The caliphate to 750
The 'Abbasid empire
Decline and fall of the 'Abbasid empire
Introduction: religion and identity
The ideology of imperial Islam
The 'Abbasids: caliphs and emperors
Introduction
Sunni Islam
Shi'i Islam
Muslim urban societies to the tenth century
The non-Muslim minorities
Continuity and change in the historic cultures of the Middle East
From Islamic Community to Islamic Society: Egypt, Iraq and Iran, 945���c.1500
The post-'Abbasid Middle Eastern state system
Muslim communities and Middle Eastern societies: 1000���1500 CE
The collective ideal
The personal ethic
Conclusion: Middle Eastern Islamic patterns
The Global Expansion of Islam from the Seventh to the Nineteenth Century
Introduction: Islamic institutions
Islamic north Africa to the thirteenth century
Spanish-Islamic civilization
Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco from the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries
States and Islam: North African variations
Introduction: empires and societies
The Turkish migrations and the Ottoman empire
The post-classical Ottoman empire: decentralization, commercialization, incorporation
The Arab regions of the Middle East
The Safavid empire
The Indian subcontinent: the Delhi sultanates and the Mughal empire
Islamic empires compared
Inner Asia from the Mongol conquests to the nineteenth century
Islamic societies in Southeast Asia
The African context: Islam, slavery, and colonialism
Islam in Sudanic, Savannah, and forest west Africa
The West African jihads
Islam in East Africa and the European colonial empires
Conclusion: the varieties of Islamic societies
The global context