Islamic Societies to the Nineteenth Century: A Global History

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Cambridge University Press, 29 oct 2012 - 758 páginas
Ira Lapidus' global history of Islamic societies, first published in 1988, has become a classic in the field. For over two decades, it has enlightened students, scholars, and others with a thirst for knowledge about one of the world's great civilizations. This book is based on parts one and two of Lapidus' monumental A History of Islamic Societies, revised and updated, 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, depicts them in their varied and changing contexts, and shows how they were transformed by their interactions with other religious and political communities into a varied, global and interconnected family of societies. 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 endeavor. Its breadth, clarity, style, and thoughtful exposition will ensure its place in the classroom and beyond as a guide for the educated reader.
 

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THE MIDDLE EAST FROM c 600 TO c 1000
7
THE PREACHING OF ISLAM
26
preaching community and state formation 59
39
The Quran
45
Arabia
51
the Umma of Islam
53
economic and social change
66
The integration of conquering and conquered peoples
72
THE GLOBAL EXPANSION OF ISLAM FROM THE SEVENTH
341
THE WESTERN ISLAMIC SOCIETIES
369
SpanishIslamic civilization 582
383
Libya Tunisia Algeria and Morocco from the thirteenth
406
North African variations
421
The Turkish migrations and the Ottoman Empire
427
decentralization
468
The Arab provinces under Ottoman rule
482

Arabic and other Middle Eastern languages
78
the MarWanids 685750
86
the central government
93
Local government
99
Decline and fall of the cAbbasid Empire
105
THE ISLAM OF THE IMPERIAL ELITE
114
Caliphs and emperors
126
THE ISLAM OF SCHOLARS AND HOLY
141
Shii Islam
174
Muslim urban societies to the tenth century
181
The nonMuslim minorities
193
Continuity and change in the historic cultures of the Middle East
211
FROM ISLAMIC COMMUNITY TO ISLAMIC SOCIETY
223
10001500 CE
264
The collective ideal
295
The personal ethic 502
302
Middle Eastern Islamic patterns 550
330
The Safavid Empire
490
the Safavid period b Female court dress
505
the Delhi Sultanates
507
Islamic empires compared 558
538
Islamic societies in Southeast Asia
561
ISLAM IN AFRICA
581
Islam in Sudanic Savannah and forest West Africa
588
The West African Jihads
607
Niamey Niger
612
Islam in East Africa and the European colonial empires
619
CONCLUSION
635
The global context
644
Glossary
659
Bibliography
671
Annotated bibliography from A History of Islamic Societies 2nd edition
701
Index
731
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Ira Lapidus is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Throughout his long and illustrious career he has published extensively. His abiding interest has been the relationship between the family, the tribe and the city, and this is exemplified in his current work and previous publications, including Contemporary Islamic Movements in Historical Perspective (1983), Muslim Cities in the Later Middle Ages (1984), Islam, Politics and Social Movements, co-edited with Edmund Burke (1988) and A History of Islamic Societies (1988, 2002).

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