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The New Cambridge History of Islam (Volume 1)

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
0521838231, 9780521838238
LCC
DS35.6 .C3 2008
Google Books ID
BkawHAAACAAJ
Open Library ID
OL24040305M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
35 MB (37015183 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
824\824
Topic
Religion
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

Volume One of The New Cambridge History of Islam, which surveys the political and cultural history of Islam from its Late Antique origins until the eleventh century, brings together contributions from leading scholars in the field. The book is divided into four parts. The first provides an overview of the physical and political geography of the Late Antique Middle East. The second charts the rise of Islam and the emergence of the Islamic political order under the Umayyad and the Abbasid caliphs of the seventh, eighth and ninth centuries, followed by the dissolution of the empire in the tenth and eleventh. 'Regionalism', the overlapping histories of the empire's provinces, is the focus of Part Three, while Part Four provides a cutting-edge discussion of the sources and controversies of early Islamic history, including a survey of numismatics, archaeology and material culture.

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