Classical Islam: A History, 600 A.D. to 1258 A.D.

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 243 pages
• Published by: Aldine Transaction April 15, 2005
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0202307670
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0202307671
• Book Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Weighs: 1 pounds

Reader Reviews
Classical Islam. From the book: The period from 610 A.D. when Muhammad received his 'call' until the conquest of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258 is known as the 'classical' period of Islam. The author examines the relationships, both cultural and political, between the Islamic world and the Mediterranean countries and India and elaborates on the economic, social, and intellectual factors and forces that shaped the Muslim world and molded its interaction with 'infidels.' To the Muslim, man has declined below the measure of the heroic ancestors; their greatness is as much and incentive as an embarrassment. What terminates in 1258 is the major chain of political legitimacy to which reality had failed to conform for rather more than four centuries when the extent of the Muslim empire had ceased to be coterminous with the rule of Islam and the unity of tradition had become no more than a postulate. Chapters: 1-Pre-Islamic Arabia; 2-Muhammad; 3-External power and internal division; 4-the Umayyads; 5-the Abasids; 6-Islamic society and social-religious movements; 7-Egypt under the Fatimids and Tulunids; 8-the Arab West; 9-The Horizon of Islam: Theology, Philosophy, Literature; 10-the downfall of the caliphate; 11-the Latin States; 12-Divisions in the Islamic world; 13-Religiuous reform and Berber nationalism; 14-Withdrawal and mysticism at the end of the caliphate.