| Description |
xii, 749 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 697-707) and index. |
| Contents |
Muhammad and the caliphate : political history of the Islamic empire up to the Mongol conquest / Fred M. Donner -- Fruit of the tree of knowledge : the relationship between faith and practice in Islam / Vincent J. Cornell -- Law and society : the interplay of revelation and reason in the Shariah / Mohammad Hashim Kamali -- Science, medicine, and technology : the making of a scientific culture / Ahmad Dallal -- Art and architecture : themes and variations / Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom -- Philosophy and theology : from the eighth century C.E. to the present / Majid Fakhry -- Islam and Christendom : historical, cultural, and religious interaction from the seventh to the fifteenth centuries / Jane I. Smith -- Sultanates and gunpowder empires : the Middle East / Ira M. Lapidus -- Eastward journey of Muslim kingship : Islam in South and Southeast Asia / Bruce B. Lawrence -- Central Asia and China : transnationalization, Islamization, and ethnicization / Dru C. Gladney -- Islam in Africa to 1800 : merchants, chiefs, and saints / Nehemia Levtzion -- Foundations for renewal and reform : Islamic movements in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / John Obert Voll -- European colonialism and the emergence of modern Muslim states / S. V. R. Nasr -- Globalization of Islam : the return of Muslims to the West / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- Contemporary Islam : reformation or revolution? / John L. Esposito. |
| Subject |
Islam -- History.
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| Added Author |
Esposito, John L.
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| Added Title |
History of Islam |
| ISBN |
0195107993 (alk. paper) |
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