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

ISBN-13: 9780202307671 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 260 str.

Gustave E. Von Grunebaum

Opis

Classical Islam 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 interactions with 'infidels.' The work is written in a clear and direct narrative form, emphasizing simultaneously the major intellectual trends and the political events and tendencies of the formative period in Islamic history that still resonates today.

Spis treści

Pre-Islamic Arabia; Muhammad; External Power and Internal Division; The Umayyads; The ‘Ahb?sids; Islamic Society and Social-Religious Movements; Egypt under the F??imids and ??l?nids; The Arab West; The Horizon of Islam: Theology, Philosophy, Literature; ‘The Downfall of the Caliphate; The Latin States; Divisions in the Islamic World; Religious Reform and Berber Nationalism; Withdrawal and Mysticism at the end of the Caliphate

O autorze

G. E. von Grunebaum