A History of the Islamic World, 600-1800: Empire, Dynastic Formations, and Heterogeneities in Pre-Modern Islamic West-Asia

ISBN-13: 9780415660327 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 426 str.

Jo Van Steenbergen

Opis

A History of the Islamic World, 600-1800 supplies a fresh and unique survey of the formation of the Islamic world and the key developments that characterize this broad region’s history from late antiquity up to the beginning of the modern era.

Spis treści

Wave 1: 7th-10th Centuries — Late Antiquity and Arabo-Islamic Imperial Formation  1. West-Asia in Late Antiquity: Roman, Persian, and Arabian Leaderships (6th-7th centuries)  2. The Prophet Muhammad and the Arabian Leadership of Medina (610-661)  3. The Arabian Imperial Formation of the Umayyads (661-750)  4. Arabian Expansions and Late Antique Transformations (7^th-8^th centuries)  5. The ‘Classical’ Period of the Abbasids: Late Antique Imperial Formation and the Triumph of the East (750-908)  6. Late Antique Patrimonial-Bureaucratic Formation in Islamic West-Asia: the construction of Arabo-Islamic urbanities, authorities and courts (8^th-10^th centuries)  7. Abbasid Imperial Transformations and Post-Abbasid Fragmentation (9^th-11^th centuries)  Wave 2: 11th-18th Centuries — Middle Period, Early Modernity, and Turkish, Mongol, Turko-Mongol and Turkmen Dynastic Formations  8. ‘Medieval’ Transformations across Islamic West-Asia: the Turkish Dynasty of the Seljuks, and Networks of Perso-Iranian viziers (1038-1193)  9. ‘Medieval’ Transformations in West-Asia’s Euphrates-to-Nile zone —　1: ‘Franks’, Zengids and Ayyyubids  10. ‘Medieval’ Transformations in West-Asia’s Nile-to-Euphrates zone —　2: the Cairo Sultanate and ‘the Reign of the Turks’ (1250-15th century)  11. ‘Medieval’ Transformations between Transoxania and Asia Minor — 1: Mongol and post-Mongol Conquest Practices and Hülegüid, post-Hülegüid and Ottoman Dynastic Formations  12. ‘Medieval’ Transformations between Transoxania and Asia Minor — 2: Turko-Mongol and Turkmen Conquest Practices and Dynastic Formations  13. ‘Medieval’ Symbiotic Transformations in Islamic West-Asia: the Construction of Heterogeneous Urbanities, Ambiguous Authorities, and Dynastic Courts (12^th -16^th Centuries)  14. Early Modern Dynastic Formations: (Post-)Safavids, Ottomans and Many Others (17^th-18^th Centuries)

O autorze

Jo Van Steenbergen teaches Islamic history at Ghent University, Belgium. He has published extensively on medieval Islamic history, including Order Out of Chaos (2006), Caliphate and Kingship in a Fifteenth-Century Literary History (2016), and Trajectories of State Formation across Fifteenth-Century Islamic West-Asia (2020).