The New Cambridge History of Islam: Volume 5, The Islamic World in the Age of Western Dominance

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Francis Robinson
Cambridge University Press, Nov 4, 2010 - History
Volume 5 of The New Cambridge History of Islam examines the history of Muslim societies from 1800 to the present. Francis Robinson, a leading historian of Islam, has brought together a team of scholars with a broad range of expertise to explore how Muslims responded to the challenges of Western conquest and domination across the last two-hundred years. As their articles reveal, the social, economic, political and historical circumstances which influenced these responses have, in many different parts of the world, empowered Muslim societies and encouraged transformation and religious revival. The volume offers a fascinating glimpse into the local dimensions of that revival and how regional connections have been forged. Synthesising the academic research of the past thirty years, as well as offering substantial guidance for further study, this book is the starting-point for all those who wish to have a serious understanding of modern Muslim societies.
 

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List of maps
Introduction
Independence and revival C 1919 to
The 1919 onset of Western dominationC 1800 to C
Egypt to c 1919
Cuno 3 Sudan Somalia and the Maghreb tothe end oftheFirst World
Iran to 1919
AliM Ansari 6 Russia Central Asiaandthe Caucasus to 1917
Turkey from the rise of Atatürk
Reşat Kasaba 12 West Asia fromthe First World
Saudi Arabia southern Arabia and the Gulf states
Iran from 1919
Misagh Parsa 18 Central Asia and theCaucasus fromthe First World
Afghanistan from 1919
Shahrani 20 South Asia from 1919
SouthEast Asia from1910 RobertW Hefner 22 Africa southof the Sahara from the First World

South Asia to 1919 Francis Robinson
SouthEast Asia and China to 1910
Africa south of the Sahara to the First World
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Francis Robinson is Professor of the History of South Asia in the Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London. His previous publications include The Mughals and the Islamic Dynasties of Iran and Central Asia 1206–1925 (June 2007), Islam and Muslim History in South Asia (2000) and, as editor, The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Islamic World (1996).

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