A History of the Muslim World

Name: A History of the Muslim World | From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity
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From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity

Michael A. Cook(Autor*in)

Princeton University Press

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Erschienen am 7. Mai 2024

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Cover
Contents
List of maps
Preface
Acknowledgments
Maps
Part I. The emergence of the Muslim world
1. The Middle East in late antiquity
The Fijar wars and the Arabian interior
The story of the Third Fijar
Should we believe the story?
The marginality of states
The centrality of tribes
The culture of a tribal people
The last war between the empires
A summer night in 626
The Byzantine Empire
The Persian Empire
The Avars
Relations between the empires
The empires and Arabia
Imperial options
The Arabian interior
Monotheism in Arabia
The broader background
The long-term perspective
Resources and states
Paganism and its discontents
2 Mu?ammad
Mu?ammad's message
Every nation has its messenger
Mu?ammad as an Abrahamic revivalist
Mu?ammad as the successor of Moses and Jesus
Strong monotheism
Mu?ammad's state
The political consequences of the message
Mu?ammad's need for protection
The breakthrough
The "Constitution of Medina
Mu?ammad's military activity
The raid on the Banu ?l-Mu??aliq
The extent of Mu?ammad's state
The character of Mu?ammad's state
Messages about the state
3. The Caliphate from the seventh to the ninth century
The early Caliphate
The succession to the Prophet in 632
The conquests
The state
The first civil war
The Umayyad dynasty
Umayyad rule
The non-Muslim enemies of the Umayyads
The Muslim enemies of the Umayyads
From the Umayyads to the ?Abbasids
The ?Abbasid dynasty
The ?Abbasids from 749 to 811
The fourth civil war, 811-19
The ?Abbasids from 819 to 861
The provinces
Spain
North Africa
Egypt
Arabia
On the borders of the Fertile Crescent
Iran
The eastern fringe
The formation of Islamic civilization
The spread of Arabic
The spread of Islam
The Arab heritage
The non-Arab heritage
The Islamic component
4. The breakup of the Caliphate in the West
The Muslim West around the ninth century
Tunisia
The land of Berber heresy
The land of Berber unbelief
Muslim Spain
Back to the Berber rebellion and its aftermath
The Berber rebellion
The aftermath of the rebellion in North Africa
The aftermath of the rebellion in Spain
The coming of Shi?ism
On to the rise of the Fa?imids and its aftermath
How the Fa?imids came to power
The Fa?imids in Tunisia
The Fa?imids beyond Tunisia
The resurgence of Umayyad Spain
The rest of the story
The rest of the story: Tunisia
The rest of the story: Spain
The rest of the story: The Berber tribes
5. The breakup of the Caliphate in the East
Political history: Grand designs
Counter-caliphs
Imperial restorationists
Nativist prophets
Political history: Petty states
Provincial governors who dig in
Mercenaries who take over
The Kurds
Other ventures in state formation
The emergence of a Muslim Persian culture
The medium
The message
6. The breakup of the Caliphate in the central Muslim world
The decline of the ?Abbasid central government
The central government
The provinces
The fundamental change
No new imperial order
Isma?ili ambitions
Why did the Isma?ilis fail?
New states in the Fertile Crescent
New states in Arabia
Oman
The Yemen
Ba?rayn
The ?ijaz
New dynasties in Egypt
From Ibn ?ulun to renewed ?Abbasid rule
The Ikhshidids
The Fa?imids: A modest empire
The Fa?imids and their problems
Part II. The Muslim world from the eleventh century to the eighteenth
7. The Turks, the Mongols, and Islam in the steppes
The Turks before the Mongols
The emergence of the Turks
The world according to Bilgä Qaghan
The spread of Islam among the Turks
How do being a Turk and being a Muslim go together?
The expansion of the Turks outside the steppes
Non-Turkic nomads from the East
The Qara Khi?ay
The Mongols
The Mongol regional states
The Turks after the Mongols
The Turks in the post-Mongol period
Being a Turk and being a Muslim again
The passing of the nomad threat
Qazaql?q and the political culture of the steppes
Excursus: The Muslims of China
8. Iran and Central Asia
Iran from the Seljuqs to the Mongols
The Oghuz invasion and the Seljuq dynasty
Between the Seljuqs and the Mongols
The Mongol invasion
The Ilkhans
The Mongol legacy in Iran
Iran from the Mongols to the Qajars
Between the Mongols and the Timurids
The Timurids
The Turcoman dynasties
The ?afawids to the later sixteenth century
The conversion of Iran to Shi?ism
The ?afawids from the later sixteenth century
The fortunes of Persian beyond the borders of Iran
Between the ?afawids and the Qajars
The pattern of Iranian history over eight centuries
Sampling a third-order approximation
Qualifications
Other levels of political activity
Central Asia and the legal legacy of the Mongols
Central Asia in brief
The legal legacy of the Mongols
9. The Turks in the western Middle East in medieval times
The Turkic expansion to the southwest
The Turcomans in Syria
The Zangids and the Ayyubids
The Mamluks
Copts and Muslims
The Turcoman expansion to the west
The Turcomans in Anatolia
From Greek-speaking Christians to Turkish-speaking Muslims
The political history of Turcoman Anatolia before the Mongols
The Mongols in Anatolia
The Turcoman dynasties of Anatolia
10. The Ottoman Empire
Background on the Balkans
The early Ottoman period
Beginnings, expansion, and catastrophe: The Ottomans to 1402
How the Ottoman state changed over the fourteenth century
Recovery and renewed expansion: The Ottomans from 1402 to 1453
Me?med II and his palaces
The middle Ottoman period
Expansion continued: The Ottomans from 1453 to 1566
The structure of the sixteenth-century Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman army and navy
Bureaucrats, scholars, law, and identity
The late Ottoman period
Heading into a time of troubles
The upshot of the time of troubles
How the Ottomans thought about their troubles
Low-level equilibrium: From the later seventeenth to the end of the eighteenth century
The provinces: The Balkans and Anatolia
The provinces: The Arab lands
The looming crisis
Muslims and Christians
Muslims and Christians: Demography
Muslims and Christians rubbing off on each other
Muslims, Christians, and the Ottoman state
An Ottoman traveler
11. India
The pre-Islamic background
The unity and diversity of India
India and the wider world
Muslim conquest and Muslim rule in India
The Arab conquest and rule of the northwest
The Turkic conquest of the northwest: Ghaznawids and Ghurids
The Delhi Sultanate
The first age of fragmentation
The beginnings of the Mughal Empire
The history of the Mughal Empire
The second age of fragmentation
Muslims and Hindus
The Muslim predicament in India
The policies of rulers
Bottom lines
12. The Indian Ocean
The coast of the heartlands
Geography and its implications
Muslim merchants from the heartlands
The western sector
Madagascar
East Africa
The Somali coast
The Indian sector
Geography and its implications
The Malabar coast
The southeastern coast
From Ceylon to Bengal
The eastern sector
Geography and its implications
Continental Southeast Asia
Maritime Southeast Asia
The character of Islam in maritime Southeast Asia
The last of the rim and the edge of the Pacific
The small islands of the Indian Ocean
13. Africa
The Sahara desert
The Sahara as a barrier
The Sahara: History
The Sahara: Peoples
The Sahara: States
The Sahara: Islam
The savanna
The savanna belt: The western states
The savanna belt: The eastern states
The savanna belt: Comparisons and contrasts
Back to eleventh-century Ghana and fourteenth-century Mali
Northeast Africa
The Ethiopian highlands: Background
The Ethiopian highlands: Muslim-Christian warfare
Nubia
South of the savanna
The spread of Islam in Africa
Race in the African context
14. The Arabs
The political history of the Arabs
Potential sites for large-scale state formation: Iraq, Egypt, Tunisia
Potential sites for large-scale state formation: Spain
Potential sites for large-scale state formation: Morocco and its Berber dynasties
Potential sites for large-scale state formation: Morocco and its Arab dynasties
Midscale state formation in Arabia
Midscale state formation outside Arabia
The demographic history of the Arabs
The Arab tribes
Nontribal Arabic speakers
Part III. Epilogue
15. The Muslim world and the West
Background
The western Mediterranean frontier
Western Europe beyond the Mediterranean
What has changed since 1800?
Territory
Population
Communications
The economy
Society
The state
Imitating non-Muslims
Ethelbert's dilemma
Muslim attitudes to Christian Europe
The extent and limits of imitation
Index

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