Venture of Islam, Volume 1 The Classical Age of Islam

Name: Venture of Islam, Volume 1 The Classical Age of Islam
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ISBN: 9780226346830

ISBN-10: 0226346838

ISBN-13: 9780226346830

Edition: 1974

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

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The Venture of Islam has 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. "This is a nonpareil work, not only because of its command of its subject but also because it demonstrates how, ideally, history should be written."--The New Yorker Volume 1, The Classical Age of Islam, analyzes the world before…

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List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 1974
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2/15/1977
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 540
Size: 5.87" wide x 9.02" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.914
Language: English



Volume 1


List of Charts


List of Maps


Marshall Hodgson and The Venture of Islam, by Reuben W. Smith


Publisher's Note


Introduction to the Study of Islamic Civilization


General Prologue: The Islamic Vision in Religion and in Civilization



: The Islamic Infusion: Genesis of a New Social Order



The World before Islam



Muhammad's Challenge, 570-624



The Early Muslim State, 625-692



The Classical Civilization of the High Caliphate Prologue to Book Two



The Islamic Opposition, 692-750



The Absolutism in Flower, 750-813



The Shar'i Islamic Vision, c. 750-945



Muslim Personal Piety: Confrontations with History and with Selfhood, c. 750-945



Speculation: Falsafah and Kalam, c. 750-945



Adab: The Bloom of Arabic Literary Culture, c. 813-945



The Dissipation of the Absolutist Tradition, 813-945


A Selective Bibliography for Further Reading


Glossary of Selected Terms and Names


Index to Volume I