Islamic Societies to the Nineteenth Century: A Global HistoryIra 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. |
Contents
THE BEGINNINGS OF ISLAMIC CIVILIZATIONS | 5 |
Historians and the sources | 26 |
preaching community and state formation | 39 |
THE ARABMUSLIM IMPERIUM 632945 | 55 |
economic and social change | 66 |
The Caliphate to 750 | 80 |
The Abbasid Empire | 91 |
Decline and fall of the Abbasid Empire | 105 |
SpanishIslamic civilization | 382 |
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 |
The Safavid Empire | 490 |
the Delhi Sultanates | 507 |
THE ISLAM OF THE IMPERIAL ELITE | 114 |
Caliphs and emperors | 126 |
THE ISLAM OF SCHOLARS AND HOLY | 141 |
Shiʻi Islam | 174 |
WOMEN FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES | 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 | 293 |
The personal ethic | 302 |
Middle Eastern Islamic patterns | 330 |
THE GLOBAL EXPANSION OF ISLAM FROM THE SEVENTH | 341 |
THE WESTERN ISLAMIC SOCIETIES | 369 |
Islamic empires compared | 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 |
Islam in East Africa and the European colonial empires | 619 |
CONCLUSION | 635 |
The global context | 644 |
Glossary | 659 |
Bibliography | 671 |
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