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    A history of Islamic societies / Ira M. Lapidus.

    • Title:A history of Islamic societies / Ira M. Lapidus.
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    • Author/Creator:Lapidus, Ira M. (Ira Marvin)
    • Published/Created:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Islam--History.
      Islamic countries--History.
    • Edition:2nd ed.
    • Description:xxx, 970 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 884-940) and index.
    • ISBN:0521779332 (pbk.)
      0521770564
    • Contents:Pt. I. Origins of Islamic Civilization: The Middle East from c.600 to c.1200
      Introduction: Middle Eastern societies before the advent of Islam
      1. Arabia
      2. life of the Prophet
      3. Arab conquests and the socio-economic bases of empire
      4. Caliphate
      5. Cosmopolitan Islam: the Islam of the imperial elite
      6. Urban Islam: the Islam of the religious elites
      7. Islamic culture and the separation of state and religion
      8. fall of the 'Abbasid empire
      9. post-'Abbasid Middle Eastern state system
      10. Muslim communities and Middle Eastern societies
      11. collective ideal
      12. Personal Ethic. Conclusion: The Middle Eastern Islamic paradigm
      Pt. II. Worldwide Diffusion of Islamic Societies from the Tenth to the Nineteenth Centuries
      Introduction: the Islamic world and the rise of Europe
      13. Iran: the Mongol, Timurid, and Safavid empires
      14. Turkish migrations and the Ottoman empire
      15. Arab Middle East
      16. Islamic North Africa and Spain to the nineteenth century
      17. Inner Asia from the Mongol conquests to the nineteenth century
      18. Indian subcontinent: the Delhi Sultanates and the Mughal empire
      19. formation of Islamic societies in Southeast Asia
      20. Islam in Sudanic, savannah, and forest West Africa
      21. Islam in East Africa and the rise of European colonial empires. Conclusion: the varieties of Islamic society
      Pt. III. Modern Transformation: Muslim Peoples in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
      Introduction: modernity and the transformation of Muslim societies
      22. Iran: state and religion in the modern era
      23. dissolution of the Ottoman empire and the modernization of Turkey
      24. Egypt: secularism and Islamic modernity
      25. Arab Middle East: Arabism, military states, and Islam
      26. North Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
      27. Indian subcontinent: India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
      28. Islam in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines
      29. Inner Asia under Russian and Chinese rule; the Caucasus and Afghanistan
      30. Islam in West Africa
      31. Islam in East Africa
      32. Muslims in Europe and America. Conclusion: secularized Islam and Islamic revival.
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