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A History of Islamic Societies
Contributor(s): Lapidus, Ira M. (Author)

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 ISBN: 0521732972     ISBN-13: 9780521732970
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $61.74  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- History | World - General
- Social Science | Islamic Studies
- Religion | Islam - History
Dewey: 909.097
LCCN: 2013028546
Physical Information: 1.9" H x 7.1" W x 9.8" L (4.45 lbs) 1017 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Islamic
- Cultural Region - Middle East
- Cultural Region - North Africa
Features: Bibliography, Index, Maps, Price on Product
Review Citations: Choice 04/01/2015 pg. 1376
 
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Publisher Description:
This new edition of one of the most widely used course books on Islamic civilizations around the world has been substantially revised to incorporate the new scholarship and insights of the last twenty-five years. Ira Lapidus' history explores the beginnings and transformations of Islamic civilizations in the Middle East and details Islam's worldwide diffusion. The history is divided into four parts. Part I is a comprehensive account of pre-Islamic late antiquity; the beginnings of Islam; the early Islamic empires; and Islamic religious, artistic, legal and intellectual cultures. Part II deals with the construction in the Middle East of Islamic religious communities and states to the fifteenth century. Part III includes the history to the nineteenth century of Islamic North Africa and Spain; the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires; and other Islamic societies in Asia and Africa. Part IV accounts for the impact of European commercial and imperial domination on Islamic societies and traces the development of the modern national state system and the simultaneous Islamic revival from the early nineteenth century to the present.

Contributor Bio(s): Lapidus, Ira M.: - Ira M. Lapidus is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Throughout his long and illustrious career he has published extensively. His abiding interest has been the relationships among families, tribes, religious communities, cities and states. This is exemplified in his current work and previous publications, including Muslim Cities in the Later Middle Ages (1967, 1984), Middle Eastern Cities (edited, 1969), Contemporary Islamic Movements in Historical Perspective (1983), Islam, Politics and Social Movements, co-edited with Edmund Burke (1988), A History of Islamic Societies (1988, 2002), and Islamic Societies to the Nineteenth Century: A Global History (2012).
 
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