A History of Islamic Societies

Introduction to Islamic societies; Part I. The Beginnings of Islamic Civilizations: 1. Middle Eastern societies before Islam; 2. Historians and the sources; 3. Arabia; 4. Muhammad: preaching, community, and state formation; 5. Introduction to the Arab-Muslim empires; 6. The Arab-Muslim conquests and the socioeconomic bases of empire; 7. Regional developments: economic and social change; 8. The Caliphate to 750; 9. The 'Abbasid Empire; 10. Decline and fall of the 'Abbasid Empire; 11. Introduction: religion and identity; 12. The ideology of imperial Islam; 13. The 'Abbasids: Caliphs and emperors; 14. Introduction; 15. Sunni Islam; 16. Shi'i Islam; 17. Muslim urban societies to the tenth century; 18. The non-Muslim minorities; 19. Continuity and change in the historic cultures of the Middle East; Part II. From Islamic Community to Islamic Society: 20. The Post- 'Abbasid Middle Eastern state system; 21. Muslim communities and Middle Eastern societies: 1000-1500 CE; 22. The collective ideal; 23. The personal ethic; 24. Conclusion: Middle Eastern Islamic patterns; Part III. The Global Expansion of Islam from the Seventh to the Nineteenth Century: 25. Introduction: Islamic institutions; 26. Islamic North Africa to the thirteenth century; 27. Spanish-Islamic civilization; 28. Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco from the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries; 29. States and Islam: North African variations; 30. Introduction: empires and societies; 31. The Turkish migrations and the Ottoman Empire; 32. The postclassical Ottoman Empire: decentralization, commercialization, and incorporation; 33. The Arab provinces under Ottoman rule; 34. The Safavid Empire; 35. The Indian subcontinent: the Delhi Sultanates and the Mughal Empire; 36. Islamic empires compared; 37. Inner Asia from the Mongol conquests to the nineteenth century; 38. Islamic societies in Southeast Asia; 39. The African context: Islam, slavery, and colonialism; 40. Islam in Sudanic, Savannah, and forest West Africa; 41. The West African Jihads; 42. Islam in East Africa and the European colonial empires; 43. The varieties of Islamic societies; 44. The global context; Part IV. The Modern Transformation: 45. Introduction: imperialism, modernity, and the transformation of Muslim societies; 46. The dissolution of the Ottoman empire and the modernization of Turkey; 47. Iran: state and religion in the modern era; 48. Egypt: secularism and Islamic modernity; 49. The Arab east: Arabism, military states, and Islam; 50. The Arabian peninsula; 51. North Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; 52. Women in the Middle East: 19th-21st centuries; 53. Muslims in Russia, the Caucasus, Inner Asia, and China; 54. The Indian subcontinent: India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh; 55. Islam in Southeast Asia: Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines; 56. Islam in West Africa; 57. Islam in East Africa; 58. Universal Islam and African diversity; 59. Muslims in Europe and America; Conclusion: secularized Islam and Islamic revival.