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A history of the Islamic world / Fred James Hill & Nicholas Awde.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hill, Fred James.
- Series:
- Illustrated histories (Hippocrene Books (Firm))
- Illustrated histories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Islamic countries--History.
- Islamic countries.
- History.
- Islamic civilization.
- Islam--20th century.
- Islam.
- Physical Description:
- 221 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Hippocrene Books, [2003]
- Contents:
- The Rise of Islam
- Cradle of Islam 19
- The Arab Conquests and the Age of Empire 32
- The Abbasids and the Rise of Baghdad 52
- Al-Andalus
- Islam in Spain 69
- The Mysticism of the Sufis 83
- The Crusades 89
- From Mongols to Mamluks 98
- Islam on the Periphery
- Travels in Africa and Asia 108
- The Age of the Three Great Muslim Empires
- The Ottomans 123
- The Safavids and Shi'ism
- Persia Reunified 147
- The Mughals in India 153
- Islam in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
- Creation of the Nation-States 165
- Islam and the West
- Facing Difficult Times 190
- Afterword
- The Challenge of the Future 204
- Key Dates in Islamic History 207
- Key Figures and Dynasties in Islamic History 210.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0781810159
- OCLC:
- 53880221
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