A History of Islamic SocietiesCambridge University Press, 2014 M10 13 - 980 pages 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. The history is divided into four parts. Part I is a comprehensive account of pre-Islamic late antiquity; the beginnings of Islam; the early Islamic empires; and Islamic religious, artistic, legal and intellectual cultures. Part II deals with the construction in the Middle East of Islamic religious communities and states to the fifteenth century. Part III includes the history to the nineteenth century of Islamic North Africa and Spain; the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires; and other Islamic societies in Asia and Africa. Part IV accounts for the impact of European commercial and imperial domination on Islamic societies and traces the development of the modern national state system and the simultaneous Islamic revival from the early nineteenth century to the present. |
Contents
Middle Eastern societies before Islam | 7 |
THE PREACHING OF ISLAM | 22 |
preaching community and state formation | 33 |
THE ARABMUSLIM IMPERIUM 632945 | 46 |
economic and social change | 54 |
The caliphate to 750 | 65 |
The Abbasid Empire | 74 |
Decline and fall of the Abbasid Empire | 85 |
Islamic empires compared | 414 |
Islamic societies in Southeast Asia | 432 |
ISLAM IN AFRICA | 447 |
The West African jihads | 467 |
Islam in East Africa and the European colonial empires | 477 |
CONCLUSION | 490 |
The global context | 497 |
MUSLIM PEOPLES FROM | 509 |
THE ISLAM OF THE IMPERIAL ELITE | 92 |
Caliphs and emperors | 102 |
Introduction | 114 |
Shii Islam | 139 |
The nonMuslim minorities | 153 |
Continuity and change in the historic cultures of the Middle East | 167 |
FROM ISLAMIC COMMUNITY TO ISLAMIC SOCIETY | 175 |
10001500 CE | 208 |
The collective ideal | 230 |
The personal ethic | 237 |
Middle Eastern Islamic patterns | 258 |
THE GLOBAL EXPANSION OF ISLAM FROM THE SEVENTH | 267 |
Islamic North Africa to the thirteenth century | 288 |
SpanishIslamic civilization | 298 |
Tunisia Algeria and Morocco from the thirteenth to the nineteenth | 316 |
North African variations | 326 |
decentralization commercialization | 363 |
The Arab provinces under Ottoman rule | 373 |
the Delhi sultanates and the Mughal Empire | 391 |
NATIONALISM AND ISLAM IN THE MIDDLE EAST | 524 |
state and religion in the modern era | 544 |
secularism and Islamic modernity | 561 |
Arabism military states and Islam | 579 |
The Arabian Peninsula | 608 |
North Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries | 627 |
nineteenth to twentyfirst centuries coauthor Lena | 652 |
ISLAM AND SECULARISM IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ASIA | 667 |
India Pakistan Afghanistan and Bangladesh | 698 |
Indonesia Malaysia and the Philippines | 729 |
ISLAM IN TWENTIETHCENTURY AFRICA | 755 |
Islam in East Africa | 780 |
Universal Islam and African diversity | 798 |
secularized Islam and Islamic revival | 826 |
Glossary | 859 |
Bibliography | 869 |
Annotated bibliography from A History of Islamic Societies second edition | 905 |
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