From the Book - Modern Library pbk. ed.
Beginnings. The prophet (570-632) ; The rashidun (632-661) ; The first fitnah
Development. The Umayyads and the second fitnah ; The religious movement ; The last years of the Umayyads (705-750) ; The Abbasids : the high caliphal period (750-935) ; The esoteric movements
Culmination. A new order (935-1258) ; The crusades ; Expansion ; The Mongols (1220-1500)
Islam triumphant. Imperial Islam (1500-1700) ; The Safavid empire ; The Moghul empire ; The Ottoman empire
Islam agonistes. The arrival of the west (1750-2000) ; What is a modern Muslim state? ; Fundamentalism ; Muslims in a minority ; The way forward.
From the Book - Paperback ed.
Beginnings. The prophet (570-632) ; The rashidun (632-661) ; The first fitnah
Development. The Umayyads and the second fitnah ; The religious movement ; The last years of the Umayyads (705-750) ; The Abbasids : the high caliphal period (750-935) ; The esoteric movements
Culmination. A new order (935-1258) ; The crusades ; Expansion ; The Mongols (1220-1500)
Islam triumphant. Imperial Islam (1500-1700) ; The Safavid empire ; The Moghul empire ; The Ottoman empire
Islam agonistes. The arrival of the west (1750-2000) ; What is a modern Muslim state? ; Fundamentalism ; Muslims in a minority ; The way forward.
From the Book - Modern Library ed.
The Umayyads and the second Fitnah
The last years of the Umayyads (705-750)
The Abbasids: the high caliphal period (750-935)
Imperial Islam (1500-1700)
The arrival of the west (1750-2000)
What is the modern muslim state?
