the PROPHET AND THE AGE OF THE CALIPHATES the islamic near east from the sixth to the eleventh century.

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of maps List of genealogical tables Preface to the first edition Preface and acknowledgements Notes on names, titles and dates 1 The matrix of the Muslim world: the Near East in the early seventh century 2 The birth of the Islamic state 3 Conquest and division in the time of the Rāshidūn caliphs 4 The Umayyad caliphate 5 The early ‘Abbasid caliphate 6 The middle ‘Abbasid caliphate 7 The early Islamic economy 8 The structure of politics in the Muslim commonwealth 9 The Buyid confederation 10 The Kurds 11 The Hamdanids 12 Bedouin political movements and dynasties 13 The Eastern Iranian world in the tenth and early eleventh centuries 14 Early Islamic Egypt and the Fatimid empire Postscript: the coming of the Seljuks Principal sources for the history of the Near East, 600–1050 Suggested further reading Glossary Index