Islam a short history
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307431318 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0307431312 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
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1 online resource (xxxiv, 230 p.) : maps. - Edition: Modern Library pbk. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Modern Library, 2002.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Beginnings. The prophet (570-632) ; The rashidun (632-661) ; The first fitnah -- Development. The Umayyads and the second fitnah ; The religious movement ; The last years of the Umayyads (705-750) ; The Abbasids : the high caliphal period (750-935) ; The esoteric movements -- Culmination. A new order (935-1258) ; The crusades ; Expansion ; The Mongols (1220-1500) -- Islam triumphant. Imperial Islam (1500-1700) ; The Safavid empire ; The Moghul empire ; The Ottoman empire -- Islam agonistes. The arrival of the west (1750-2000) ; What is a modern Muslim state? ; Fundamentalism ; Muslims in a minority ; The way forward. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | Islam -- History Islamic Empire -- History Islam -- Histoire Empire islamique -- Histoire Islam Islamic Empire RELIGION / Islam / General |
Genre: | Electronic books. History. |