Islam: From Medina to the Maghreb and from the Indies to Istanbul

ISBN-13: 9781138038899 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 662 str.

Christopher Tadgell

Opis

This book covers the whole range in unprecedented depth, placing the development of the tradition in the context – religious, political, economic and technological – of the times.

Recenzje

'The greatest value of this fine study lies in its enormous and detailed range, encompassing not only the Islamic heartlands, but traditions as diverse as those of the sultanates of North Africa, the earliest Moslem dynasties of India and the legacy of Tamerlane. A prodigious labour of love.' – Colin Thubron

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Dar Al-Islam  1.1 Ascendancy of the Caliphate and the Assertion of Orthodoxy  1.2 Decadence of the Caliphate: Shi’ite Challenge  1.3 Sunni Reaction: Caliphate and Sultanate  Part 2: Beyond the Western Pale  2.1. Cordoban Caliphate  2.2. Moroccan Sultanates  2.3. Andalusian Enclaves  Part 3: Dar Al-Islam Divided  3.1 The Central Axis of the Turks  3.2: The Orbit of Iran  Part 4: Beyond The Eastern Pale  4.1. Afghans, Turks and Their Delhi Sultanate  4.2. Regional Gravity  4.3. The Mughals: Advent  4.4. The Deccan: The Qutbshahi and Adilshahi Sultanates  4.5. The Mughals: Apogee  Epilogue: Hindustani Syncretism  Glossary  Further Reading  Index