The Cambridge History of Islam: Volume 1A, The Central Islamic Lands from Pre-Islamic Times to the First World WarP. M. Holt, Ann K. S. Lambton, Bernard Lewis First published in 1970, The Cambridge History of Islam is the most comprehensive and ambitious collaborative survey of Islamic history and civilization yet to appear in English. On publication it was welcomed as a work useful for both reference and reading, for the general reader, student and specialist alike. It has now been reprinted, with corrections, and for ease of handling the original two hardcover volumes have each been divided into two separate paperbacks. |
Contents
PREISLAMIC ARABIA | 3 |
MUHAMMAD | 30 |
THE PATRIARCHAL AND UMAYYAD | 57 |
THE ABBASID CALIPHATE | 104 |
THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE CALIPHATE | 143 |
EGYPT AND SYRIA | 175 |
ANATOLIA IN THE PERIOD OF THE SELJUKS | 231 |
THE EMERGENCE OF THE OTTOMANS | 263 |
THE HEYDAY AND DECLINE OF | 324 |
THE LATER OTTOMAN EMPIRE IN RUMELIA | 354 |
THE LATER OTTOMAN EMPIRE IN EGYPT | 374 |
SAFAVID PERSIA | 394 |
CENTRAL ASIA FROM THE SIXTEENTH | 468 |
APPENDIX THE GOLDEN HORDE AND | 495 |
TSARIST RUSSIA AND THE MUSLIMS | 503 |
THE RISE OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE | 295 |
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