Ira M. Lapidus (Berkeley University of California)

A History of Islamic Societies

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Produktbeschreibung

This new edition of one of the most widely used course books on Islamic civilizations around the world has been substantially revised to incorporate the new scholarship and insights of the last twenty-five years. Ira Lapidus' history explores the beginnings and transformations of Islamic civilizations in the Middle East and details Islam's worldwide diffusion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 3 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 1020
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 55mm
• Gewicht: 1816g
• ISBN-13: 9780521732970
• ISBN-10: 0521732972
• Artikelnr.: 40743009

Autorenporträt

Ira M. 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 relationships among families, tribes, religious communities, cities and states. This is exemplified in his current work and previous publications, including Muslim Cities in the Later Middle Ages (1967, 1984), Middle Eastern Cities (edited, 1969), Contemporary Islamic Movements in Historical Perspective (1983), Islam, Politics and Social Movements, co-edited with Edmund Burke (1988), A History of Islamic Societies (1988, 2002), and Islamic Societies to the Nineteenth Century: A Global History (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to Islamic societies
Part I. The Beginnings of Islamic Civilizations: 1. Middle Eastern societies before Islam
2. Historians and the sources
3. Arabia
4. Muhammad: preaching, community, and state formation
5. Introduction to the Arab-Muslim empires
6. The Arab-Muslim conquests and the socioeconomic bases of empire
7. Regional developments: economic and social change
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
Part II. From Islamic Community to Islamic Society: 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
Part III. 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. 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 postclassical Ottoman Empire: decentralization, commercialization, and incorporation
33. The Arab provinces under Ottoman rule
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. The varieties of Islamic societies
44. The global context
Part IV. The Modern Transformation: 45. Introduction: imperialism, modernity, and the transformation of Muslim societies
46. The dissolution of the Ottoman empire and the modernization of Turkey
47. Iran: state and religion in the modern era
48. Egypt: secularism and Islamic modernity
49. The Arab east: Arabism, military states, and Islam
50. The Arabian peninsula
51. North Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
52. Women in the Middle East: 19th-21st centuries
53. Muslims in Russia, the Caucasus, Inner Asia, and China
54. The Indian subcontinent: India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh
55. Islam in Southeast Asia: Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines
56. Islam in West Africa
57. Islam in East Africa
58. Universal Islam and African diversity
59. Muslims in Europe and America
Conclusion: secularized Islam and Islamic revival.