The Cambridge History of Islam - Volume 1A

Buku terbitan Cambridge University Press tahun 2008 'The Cambridge History of Islam Vol 1A - The Central Islamic Lands From Pre-Islamic Times to the First World War'. Buku edited by P M Holt, Ann K S Lambton and Bernard Lewis.

[Professor AKS Lambton, who died on July 19 2008, aged 96, held the Chair of Persian at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, from 1953 to 1979; She was a towering figure in her field, unrivalled in the breadth of her knowledge concerning Iran].

TCHI - Vol 1A

Contents

Part 1 The Rise and Domination of the Arabs
Pre-Islamic Arabia; Muhammad; The patriarchal and Umayyad caliphates; The Abbasid caliphates.

Part 2 The Coming of the Steppe Peoples
The disintegration of the caliphate in the east; Egypt and Syria; Anatolia in the period of the Seljuks and the Beyliks; The emergence of the Ottomans.

Part 3 The Central Islamic Lands in the Ottoman Period
The rise of the Ottoman empire; The heyday and decline of the Ottoman empire; The later Ottoman empire in Rumelia and Anatolia; The later Ottoman empire in Egypt and the fertile crescent; Safavid Persia; Persia - the breakdown of society; Central Asia from the sixteenth century to the Russian conquests; Appendix - The golden horde and its successors; Tsarist Russia and the Muslims of Central Asia.

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