The venture of Islam : conscience and history in a world civilization / Marshall G.S. Hodgson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hodgson, Marshall G. S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic civilization.

Islamic Empire--History.

Islamic Empire.

History.

Middle East--History--1517-.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

3 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1977.

Summary:

"The Venture of Islam has been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early 1975. In this three-volume study, illustrated with charts and maps, Hodgson traces and interprets the historical development of Islamic civilization from before the birth of Muhammad to the middle of the twentieth century. This work grew out of the famous course on Islamic civilization that Hodgson created and taught for many years at the University of Chicago. In the second work of this three-volume set, Hodgson investigates the establishment of an international Islamic civilization through about 1500. This includes a theoretical discussion of cultural patterning in the Islamic world and the Occident. "This is a nonpareil work, not only because of its command of its subject but also because it demonstrates how, ideally, history should be written."--"The New Yorker

Contents:

v. 1. The classical age of Islam : Marshall Hodgson and The venture of Islam / Reuben W. Smith

Introduction to the study of Islamic civilization

General prologue: The Islamic vision in religion and in civilization

Book I. The Islamic infusion: genesis of a new social order : The world before Islam

Muhammad's challenge, 570-624

The early Muslim state, 625-692

Book II. The classical civilization of the High Caliphate : The Islamic opposition, 692-750

The absolutism in flower, 750-813

The Shar'î Islamic vision, c.750-945

Muslim personal piety: confrontations with history and with selfhood, c750-945

Speculation: Falsafah and Kalâm, c.750-945

Adab: the bloom of Arabic literary culture, c.813-945

The dissipation of the absolutist tradition, 813-945

v. 2. The expansion of Islam in the middle periods : Book III. The establishment of an international civilization : The formation of the international political order, 945-1118

The social order: mercantile interests, military power, liberty

Maturity and dialogue among the intellectual traditions, c.945-1111

The Ṣûfism of the Ṭarîqah orders, c.945-1273

The victory of the new Sunnî internationalism, 1118-1258

The Bloom of Persian literary culture and its times, c.1111-1274

Cultural patterning in Islamdom and the occidental

Book IV. Crisis and renewal: the age of Mongol prestige : After the Mongol irruption: politics and society, 1259-1405

Conservation and courtliness in the intellectual traditions, c.1258-1503

The visual arts in an Islamic setting, c.1258-1503

The expansion of Islam, 1258-1503.

v. 3. The gunpowder empires and modern times : Book V. Second flowering: the empires of gunpowder times : The Ṣafavî empire: triumph of the Shî'ah, 1503-1722

The Indian Timurî empire: coexistence of Muslims and Hindus, 1526-1707

The Ottoman empire: Sharî'ah-military alliance, 1517-1718

Before the deluge: the eighteenth century

Book VI. The Islamic heritage in the modern world : The impact of the Great Western Transmutation: the generation of 1798

European world hegemony: the nineteenth century

Modernism in Turkey: westernization

Egypt and East Arab lands: revival of the heritage

Iran and the Russian empire: the dream of revolution

Muslim India: communalism and universalism

The drive for independence: the twentieth century

Epilogue: The Islamic heritage and the modern conscience.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Originally published: 1974

ISBN:

0226346838

9780226346830

0226346846

0226346854

OCLC:

23244304