Islam : a thousand years of faith and power

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In its first thousand years-from the revelations to Muhammad in the seventh century to the great Islamic empires of the sixteenth-Islamic civilization flourished. While Europeans suffered through the Dark Ages, Muslims in such cities as Jerusalem, Damascus, Alexandria, Fez, Tunis, Cairo, and Baghdad...

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Main Author: Bloom, Jonathan (Jonathan M.)
Other Authors: Blair, Sheila
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, c2002.
Series:Yale Nota bene.
Subjects:
Islam > History.
Islamic Empire > History.
Table of Contents:
  • [pt]. 1. Muhammad and the origins of Islam, 600-750
  • 1. The world at the rise of Islam
  • 2. Muhammad and the revelation of Islam
  • 3. The sources of faith
  • 4. Muhammad's successors
  • 5. The spread of Islamic power
  • [pt]. 2. The golden age, 750-1250
  • 6. The crucible
  • 7. City and country
  • 8. The flowering of intellectual life
  • [pt]. 3. The age of empires, 1250-1700
  • 9. Regional powers
  • 10. Consolidation
  • 11. Expansion
  • Epilogue
  • Glossary
  • Notes for further reading
  • References
  • Index
  • About the authors.

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