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Authors: Ira M. Lapidus
ISBN-13: 9780521770569, ISBN-10: 0521770564
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: August 2002
Edition: REV

Author Biography: Ira M. Lapidus

Ira M. Lapidus was Professor of Islamic history at the University of California at Berkeley.

Book Synopsis

Ira Lapidus' classic history of the origins and evolution of Muslim societies, revised and updated.

Library Journal

Respected scholar Lapidus here emphasizes what he argues to be the distinctive features of Islamic societiesthe developments of communal, religious, and political institutions. The book's first section deals with the Islamic transformation of traditional Middle Eastern societies; the second, the diffusion of Middle Eastern Islam to other regions; and the last, the disruptions of Muslim societies with the collapse of the Islamic empire and European domination. The book covers Africa and Central and Southern Asia as well as the Middle East. Recommended for all research and general library collections. J. Anthony Gardner, California State Univ., Northridge

	List of illustrations
	List of maps
	Lists of tables and figures
	Preface and acknowledgments to the first edition
	Preface and acknowledgments to the second edition
	Publisher's preface
Pt. I	The Origins of Islamic Civilization: The Middle East from c.600 to c.1200
	Introduction: Middle Eastern societies before the advent of Islam	3
1	Arabia	10
2	The life of the Prophet	18
3	The Arab conquests and the socio-economic bases of empire	31
4	The Caliphate	45
5	Cosmopolitan Islam: the Islam of the imperial elite	67
6	Urban Islam: the Islam of the religious elites	81
7	Islamic culture and the separation of state and religion	99
8	The fall of the 'Abbasid empire	103
9	The post-'Abbasid Middle Eastern state system	112
10	Muslim communities and Middle Eastern societies	133
11	The collective ideal	147
12	The Personal Ethic	156
	Conclusion: The Middle Eastern Islamic paradigm	183
Pt. II	The Worldwide Diffusion of Islamic Societies from the Tenth to the Nineteenth Centuries
	Introduction: the Islamic world and the rise of Europe	197
13	Iran: the Mongol, Timurid, and Safavid empires	226
14	The Turkish migrations and the Ottoman empire	248
15	The Arab Middle East	283
16	Islamic North Africa and Spain to the nineteenth century	299
17	Inner Asia from the Mongol conquests to the nineteenth century	337
18	The Indian subcontinent: the Delhi Sultanates and the Mughal empire	356
19	The formation of Islamic societies in Southeast Asia	382
20	Islam in Sudanic, savannah, and forest West Africa	400
21	Islam in East Africa and the rise of European colonial empires	429
	Conclusion: the varieties of Islamic society	443
Pt. III	The Modern Transformation: Muslim Peoples in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
	Introduction: modernity and the transformation of Muslim societies	453
22	Iran: state and religion in the modern era	469
23	The dissolution of the Ottoman empire and the modernization of Turkey	489
24	Egypt: secularism and Islamic modernity	512
25	The Arab Middle East: Arabism, military states, and Islam	535
26	North Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries	586
27	The Indian subcontinent: India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh	620
28	Islam in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines	652
29	Inner Asia under Russian and Chinese rule; the Caucasus and Afghanistan	684
30	Islam in West Africa	732
31	Islam in East Africa	761
32	Muslims in Europe and America	785
	Conclusion: secularized Islam and Islamic revival	814
	Glossary	873
	Bibliography	884
	Index	941

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