This highly successful introductory text guides students through the wealth of literature and source material on social and political medieval Islamic history. Covering the Middle East and North Africa during the period AD600 to AD1500, 'Islamic History' combines bibliographic study with an inquiry into method. Discussing topics ranging from struggles for power within the early Islamic community to the life of the peasantry, this book makes essential reading for all students of Middle East history and politics.
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"This book is an extremely judicious `stock-taking' of scholarship in the field of medieval Islamic history, especially valuable for the way it examines--and forces us to reconsider--the assumptions on which previous scholarship has been based.... Students of Islamic studies will find it indispensable."--Fred M. Donner, University of Chicago
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