An accessible introduction to pre-modern Islam, showcasing the individuals â caliphs, law-makers, theologians, poets, mystics and scholars â who shaped the course of early Islamic history.
An accessible introduction to pre-modern Islam, showcasing the individuals â caliphs, law-makers, theologians, poets, mystics and scholars â who shaped the course of early Islamic history.
Chase F. Robinson taught Islamic history for fourteen years at the University of Oxford before being appointed President of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and later Distinguished Professor of History. His extensive publications on pre-modern Islam include Islamic Historiography (2003), Empires and Elites after the Muslim Conquest: The Transformation of Northern Mesopotamia (2000) and The New Cambridge History of Islam, Vol. 1 (2010).
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1. Islam and Empire 600 850 2. The Islamic Commonwealth 850 1050 3. The Sunni Synthesis 1050 1250 4. Conflict & Change 1250 1550
