Islamic Societies to the Nineteenth Century - A Global History by Ira M. Lapidus

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First published in 1988, Ira Lapidus' A History of Islamic Societies has become a classic in the field, enlightening students, scholars, and others with a thirst for knowledge about one of the world's great civilizations. This book, based on fully revised and updated parts one and two of this monumental work,describes the transformations of Islamic societies from their beginning in the seventh century, through their diffusion across the globe, into the challenges of the nineteenth century. The story focuses on the organization of families and tribes, religious groups and states, showing how they were transformed by their interactions with other religious and political communities. The book concludes with the European commercial and imperial interventions that initiated a new set of transformations in the Islamic world, and the onset of the modern era. Organized in narrative sections for the history of each major region, with innovative, analytic summary introductions and conclusions, this book is a unique endeavour. Contents Introduction to the history of Islamic societies Book I. Part I. The Beginnings of Islamic Civilizations, The Middle East from c.600 to c.1000: 1. Middle Eastern societies before Islam 2. Historians and the sources 3. Arabia 4. Muhammad: preaching, community, and state formation 5. Introduction 6. The Arab-Muslim conquests and the socio-economic bases of empire 7. Regional developments: economic and social changes 8. The caliphate to 750 9. The 'Abbasid empire 10. Decline and fall of the 'Abbasid empire 11. Introduction: religion and identity 12. The ideology of imperial Islam 13. The 'Abbasids: caliphs and emperors 14. Introduction 15. Sunni Islam 16. Shi'i Islam 17. Muslim urban societies to the tenth century 18. The non-Muslim minorities 19. Continuity and change in the historic cultures of the Middle East Book I. Part II. From Islamic Community to Islamic Society: Egypt, Iraq and Iran, 945�c.1500: 20. The post-'Abbasid Middle Eastern state system 21. Muslim communities and Middle Eastern societies: 1000�1500 CE 22. The collective ideal 23. The personal ethic 24. Conclusion: Middle Eastern Islamic patterns Book II. The Global Expansion of Islam from the Seventh to the Nineteenth Century: 25. Introduction: Islamic institutions 26. Islamic north Africa to the thirteenth century 27. Spanish-Islamic civilization 28. Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco from the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries 29. States and Islam: North African variations 30. Introduction: empires and societies 31. The Turkish migrations and the Ottoman empire 32. The post-classical Ottoman empire: decentralization, commercialization, incorporation 33. The Arab regions of the Middle East 34. The Safavid empire 35. The Indian subcontinent: the Delhi sultanates and the Mughal empire 36. Islamic empires compared 37. Inner Asia from the Mongol conquests to the nineteenth century 38. Islamic societies in Southeast Asia 39. The African context: Islam, slavery, and colonialism 40. Islam in Sudanic, Savannah, and forest west Africa 41. The West African jihads 42. Islam in East Africa and the European colonial empires 43. Conclusion: the varieties of Islamic societies 44. The global context. ISBN - 9781107619135

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