Islam a new history from Muhammad to the present
A concise new narrative history of Islam that draws on the transformative insights of recent research to emphasize the diversity and dynamism of the traditionToday's Muslim world is in upheaval: legalists and mystics engage in intense debates, radical groups invoke Sharia, Muslim immigrants in the W...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- The Quran and the birth of a community of believers
- The Umayyad dynasty and the birth of an imperial religion
- Abbasid Baghdad : crucible of a multiconfessional civilization
- The three caliphates of the year 1000
- Invasions and reconfigurations of the Muslim world, eleventh-thirteenth centuries
- The world of Ibn Battuta
- Muslim empires (fourteenth-seventeenth centuries)
- Colonization and its discontents, 1798-1918
- Decolonization, nationalism, and the emergence of political Islam in the twentieth century
- Between reform and radicalism : being Muslim in the twenty-first century.
