The Last Great Muslim Empires: The Last Great Muslim Empires: (History of the Muslim World) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558761128 ISBN 13: 9781558761124

Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2024

Synopsis

"Islamic history feeds into world history ... Islamic civilization became a global phenomenon, for example, in its capacity to receive and absorb culture from one end of the world and then pass it on to other parts of the world. One sees this in the rapid movement, within the Islamic world, of paper-making or irrigation technology, of herbs and agricultural crops, or of scientific knowledge, especially mathematics, astronomy, and medicine. Demographically, too, Islam became a global reality. Although the religion is stereotypically identified as peculiarly and especially Middle Eastern, the worldwide distribution of the world's one billion Muslims - more than two thirds of whom live outside of the Middle East - tells quite a different story.

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About the Authors

The contributors to this volume include leading scholars in the field such as the late Bertold Spuler, Hans Joachim Kissling, Navill Barbour, J. Spencer Trimingham, Helmut Braun and F.R.C. Bagley, who also edited and translated from German for this book.

Richard M. Eaton, University of Arizona, author of Social Rules of Sufis in Medieval India and other books, describes in his introduction the roles of the last great Muslim empires in world history.

Edition details

• Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1558761128
• ISBN 13: 9781558761124
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Kissling Hans J