1st Edition
A History of the Muslim World to 1405 The Making of a Civilization
By Vernon Egger
Copyright 2004
360 Pages
40 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
360 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
40 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Muslims first appeared in the early seventh century as members of a persecuted religious movement in a sun-baked town in Arabia. Within a century, their descendants were ruling a vast territory that extended from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indus River valley in modern Pakistan. This region became the arena for a new cultural experiment in which Muslim scholars and creative artists synthesized and... Read more
Part 1 The Formative Period, 610–950; Chapter 1 Origins; Chapter 2 Arab Imperialism; Chapter 3 The Development of Sectarianism; Chapter 4 The Center Cannot Hold: Three Caliphates; Chapter 5 Synthesis and Creativity; Part 2 A Civilization Under Siege, 950–1260; Chapter 6 Filling the Vacuum of Power, 950–1100; Chapter 7 Barbarians at the Gates, 1100–1260; Chapter 8 The Consolidation of Traditions; Chapter 9 The Muslim Commonwealth; Part 3 Mongol Hegemony, 1260–1405; Chapter 10 The Great Transformation; Chapter 11 Unity and Diversity in Islamic Traditions;
Biography
Vernon O. Egger
