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009177
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New York, Benchmark Books, 1998.
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80pWhite Spine
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Cultures of the past
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Covers the civilization of the Islamic Empire from the last years of the eighth century to the thirteenth century.
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History
Belief system
Cultural history
Beliefs and society
The legacy of Islam's Golden Age
The Golden Age of Islam: A chronology
The Golden Age of Islam: A chronology
Glossary
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076140273X Hb.
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| 009592 | 297/GEO | Main | On Shelf | General | |
| 011388 | 297/GEO | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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016956
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Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1977.
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xii, 532pLight Brown spine
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'The venture of Islam' has been honoured as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication. In this three-volume study, illustrated with maps and charts, Hodgson traces and interprets the historical development of Islamic civilization from before the birth of Muhammed to the middle of the twentieth century.
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List of charts
List of maps
Introduction to the study of Islamic civilization
A selective bibliography for furthur reading
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9780226346830 Pb.
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| I01023 | 909.097671/HOD | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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005373
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London, Thames & Hudson, 1976.
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360pWhite Spine
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Explores every aspect of Islam, its social life, trade, mysticism, literature, music, science and warfare at a time when Western interest in the Islamic world is growing as never before.
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The faith and the faithful : Lands and people of Islam / Bernard Lewis
Five pillars of Islam
Belief, opinion and toleration
The rule of the law
Free men, freedmen and 'people of the pact'
Who owned the land?
The man-made setting : Islamic art and architecture / Richard Ettinghausen
The forces of unity
Arabic script
The rejection of sculpture
The mosque : origins and meaning
Colour : the response to environment
Dust, heat and gardens
The Islamic interior
Cities and Citizens : The growth and culture of urban Islam / Oleg Grabar
Time, place and status
The quarters
The religious community
Wealth
The 'state'
Taste
The Islamic city
Tension and reilience
The mystic path : Sufi tradition / Fritz Meier
Classical Sufiism
Textbooks and transition
The orders
The mystical cult of Muhammad
Sufiism and the State
Marginal groups
Sufiism and literature
Jewellers of the world : The heritage of Islamic literature / Charles Pellat
Above literature : the Quran
Poetry of the desert
The poetry of wine and love
Creation and convention
Challenge from Persia
Literature for rthe people
Neo-Persian
Arabic prose
The dimensions of sound : Islamic music - philosophy, theory and practice / A. Shiloah
Folk music
Art music
Technique and expression : the modes
Religion and music
Theory and practice
Six periods of Islamic music
The scientific enterprise : Islamic contributions to the development of science / A.I. Sabra
The appropriation of ancient learning
The opposition
Innovation and tradition : mathematics
Astronomy : theory and observation
Light and vision
Al-Andalus versus the East
Armies of the prophet : Strategy, tactics and weapons in Islamic warfare / Edmond Bosworth
The Arab eruption
Consolidating the conquests
The make up of the armies
Tactics and battle
The seige
Slace systems
A revolution in warfare : firearms
War at sea
Moorish Spain : The golden age of Cordoba and Granada / Emilio Garcia Gomez
The conquest and the people
The Umayyads
A multi-racial culture
Almanzor and civil war
Three wrtiers of the civil war
Ibn Quzman, poet of Muslim Spain
The kingdon of Granada
Land of the lion and the sun : The flowering of Iranian civilization / Roger M. Savoy
The rebirth of Iran
The Safavids
The mystique of the monarchy
The land and people
Religion and philosophy
Literature, science and art
Iran and the West
Modern Iran
The Ottoman Empire : R+The rise and fall of Turkish domination / Norman Itzkowitz
The Seljuqs of Rum
A new wave : the Ottomans
Mehmed the Conqueror
Structure of the Ottoman state
At the court of the sultan
The long decline
Muslim India : From the coming of Islam to Independence / S.A.A. Rizvi
Before the Mughuls
Flowering and decline
Kings and the court
The social classes
The legacy of architecture
The art of the miniature
A goldan age of Islamic science
The impact of the West
Islam today : Problems of the 19th and 20th centuriesn / Elie Kedourie
Threat and resistance
'Necessary reforms'
Enlightenment versus tradition
Islam and Communist Russia
India : partition and paradox
Islam - faith or social order?
Epilogue
Chronological chart of islam
Bibliography
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0500276242 Pb.
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